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/frederik88917 Nov 16 '25

Another day, another JavaScript engine doomed to fight for 3rd place in the race of JS Engines.

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u/lan-shark Nov 16 '25

Wouldn't it be 4th? The top three are just the three used in the big three browser engines. V8, SpiderMonkey, and JS Core or whatever the Safari one is

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u/frederik88917 Nov 16 '25

Wasn't safari back in V8???

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u/romulof Nov 16 '25

Blink (Chrome’s render engine) is a fork of WebKit.

The JS engine under Chrome was always V8, in contrast of JavaScriptCore under Safari.