[HN Gopher] Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS...
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       Txiki.js: Tiny JavaScript runtime built with QuickJS and libuv
        
       Author : juancampa
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2021-07-31 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Zababa wrote:
       | Since it's presented as a "tiny" runtime, I'd like a size
       | comparaison between this and Node in the readme. Same thing with
       | the use cases (learning projects or "just for fun" are very valid
       | use cases!).
        
         | oso2k wrote:
         | QuickJS [0] quotes a 210KiB binary.
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         | [0] https://bellard.org/quickjs/
        
         | Zababa wrote:
         | Replying to myself, on Pop!_OS I get a final tjs build of 1.8
         | Mo. My Node weighs 71 M for comparaison.
        
           | edflsafoiewq wrote:
           | Why is node so large?
        
             | c-smile wrote:
             | V8 alone is around 40/50 Mb.
        
       | beebeepka wrote:
       | Oh, goody. Last time I tried QuickJS it didn't have support for
       | asynchronous generators and proxies.
       | 
       | Thank you, Mr. Bellard and whoever is working on this runtime.
       | Your work is appreciated
        
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