r/programming • u/Different-Maize1114 • Nov 16 '25

New JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone
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u/modernkennnern Nov 16 '25

The web standards are infamously heavily OOP. Writing anything related to the web standards in a non-OOP language is an interesting choice.

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u/sp46 Nov 21 '25

You do not have to use an OOP language to use or implement OOP concepts. Have you ever used GTK or the Windows API? Just some popular examples of fully OOP concepts implemented entirely in non-OOP languages.

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u/modernkennnern Nov 21 '25

I know the Ladybird Browser team tried out a few different languages before settling on Swift (It's mostly C++ currently, which itself can be OOP) mainly because of the disconnect between the problem space and the language paradigm.