Hacker GitHub

← All repos

bellard/quickjs

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 11,094 C

Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 19 comments · first 2021-01-13 · latest 2025-11-12

Mentions per year 21 mentions · busiest year 2022 (7)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. It wasn't a QuickJS developer but developer from a fork: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/issues/445
    comment by rdtsc · 2025-11-12 · in Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
  2. Not anymore, https://github.com/bellard/quickjs
    comment by ivankra · 2025-10-12 · in Building a JavaScript Runtime using C
  3. …I think deserves a mention. It seems to be still active (last release 2025-04-26, GitHub mirror at https://github.com/bellard/quickjs shows some activity).
    comment by weiliddat · 2025-07-27 · in The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
  4. …above x lines", where `quickjs.c` is 50k lines and has functions that are hundreds of lines long: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/quickjs.c (Obviously different approaches suits different circumstances.)
    comment by pveierland · 2025-04-15 · in JSLinux
  5. …wanted to show how it is available in many C implementations and is used, for example, in QuickJS: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/0c8fecab2392387d76a4...
    comment by hawski · 2024-05-07 · in What Is in a Rust Allocator?
  6. ▲ 1
    Show HN: Happy Pi day with this PWA to cut 100k Pi digits offline
    story by imcotton · 2024-03-14 · 0 comments
  7. …[quickjs/pi]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/pi.html [pi_bigint.js]: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/examples/pi_b... [accdoo.app/about]: https://accdoo.app/about#manual [39115559]: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
    comment by imcotton · 2024-02-03 · in Show HN: accdoo cipher web app now fused with offline Pi cutter (100k digits)
  8. ▲ 78
    New QuickJS Release
    story by rdtsc · 2023-12-09 · 27 comments
  9. Well... check out QuickJS: the bulk of the code is in a single 55k LOC C file: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/quickjs.c
    comment by the_duke · 2023-09-05 · in A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
  10. …of random fixes from various people and most of them don't seem to be accepted or responded to: * https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/issues/131 * https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/issues/130 * https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/issues/129…
    comment by rdtsc · 2022-11-30 · in WasmEdge
  11. …so they can even be compared with dedicated libraries like libgrapheme, libutf8proc or libutf. [1] https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/libunicode.c [2] https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/master/src-input/du...
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-11-15 · in Libgrapheme: A simple freestanding C99 library for Unicode
  12. …in C, that also runs in the browser - https://github.com/binji/binjgb QuickJS Javascript Engine - https://github.com/bellard/quickjs The TypeScript language and compiler - https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript
    comment by lioeters · 2022-09-10 · in Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
  13. …ship with it's own JS evaluator. Either through https://github.com/dop251/goja or through porting https://github.com/bellard/quickjs to Go (~25kloc of C)
    comment by matthewmueller · 2022-05-14 · in Show HN: A Full-Stack Web Framework for Go
  14. …too for language like JavaScript where large number of features are introduces on regular basis. https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/graphs/contributors
    comment by akmittal · 2022-03-08 · in QuickJS JavaScript Engine
  15. …JIT) is written in Go, but the project uses the quickjs JavaScript runtime, which is written in C: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs
    comment by binarynate · 2022-02-08 · in Elsa – Minimal, fast, secure runtime for TypeScript written in Go
  16. …minimalist but complete quickjs.c Javascript interpreter is presently about 54,000 lines of C: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/quickjs.c Javascript is an enormous, complicated, designed-by-committee language, as are…
    comment by dandotway · 2022-01-08 · in Fortran is easy to learn
  17. Would Bellard's libunicode[1] work? [1]: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/libunicode.h
    comment by motiejus · 2021-12-21 · in Zig 0.9.0
  18. …encoded table. There's more code but the table itself is only about 2K for both case directions. https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/b5e62895c619d4ffc75c...
    comment by edflsafoiewq · 2021-10-13 · in Fast character case conversion (or how to compress sparse arrays)
  19. …-e > Output @code{main()} and bytecode in a C file. The default is to output an executable file. https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/doc/quickjs.t...
    comment by eatonphil · 2021-09-02 · in Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler
  20. That's an interpreter written in C and without a JIT. Not the same as an AOT compiler. https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/quickjs-opcod... The point isn't just not having a JIT. You can run v8 without a JIT. The point is good…
    comment by eatonphil · 2021-09-02 · in Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler
  21. …despite not even being distributed/developed via github. And it gained them in just 3 months. https://github.com/bellard/quickjs
    comment by megous · 2021-01-13 · in JavaScript Rising Stars 2020