Hello! I'm Oliver (or

@canadahonk

in some places). as of late I have been writing/messing with compilers "written for the future" (like compiling JS to Wasm). happy to chat about ~anything 🙂

Great to see you here! Super excited to see you working proffor full time now. In my day job I’m working a really old, really janky fork of rhino (js engine written in Java). It’s got an aot js compiler to jvm bytecode for basically es5. (Nashorn also did this). Sadly the performance is just awful. (Definitely has a lot of room for improvement). I’m super excited to follow your effort. Definitely seems like a much better approach than the “compile quickjs to wasm” so many people are taking.

really old, really janky fork of rhino

oof 😅

Trust me its way worse than you think. It’s got “custom features” added by the founder 15 years ago. But now it powers millions upon millions of lines of javascript for like half the fortune 500. Pretty wild that these things exist

@Jimmy Miller anywhere where I could read more about that? Sounds fascinating

@Ionuț G. Stan Not sure there is a ton written about it. But the company is ServiceNow.

@Jimmy Miller thank you. I managed to find a few things in their API docs, which talk about a Glide server. Definitely, gives the feeling of a peculiar behemoth.