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JavaScript Engines Zoo

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Holy cow there are a lot of JavaScript engines. These are the big ones like V8 that Chrome uses or JavaScriptCore that Safari uses, but also purposefully lightweight engines like QuickJS for “embedding”.

(I’m also just realizing that domains like this, zoo.js.org, anybody can have because js.org is literally for JavaScript-based projects and you can subdomain off it. There are tons of them, like rising stars).

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