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Boa is an embeddable Javascript engine written in Rust.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2020-12-20 · latest 2026-09-17

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  1. I referenced Boa without linking, so: https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
    comment by chiffaa · 2026-09-17 · in One year of sponsored Servo development
  2. It looks like Boa has Unicode tables compiled inside of itself: https://github.com/boa-dev/boa/tree/main/core/icu_provider Brimstone does not appear to. That covers the vast bulk of the difference. The ICU data is about 10.7MB in the…
    comment by jerf · 2025-11-16 · in Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust
  3. Found it: https://github.com/boa-dev/boa/blob/6200e4b5eec1284b87e902c5... The Boa constructor edit: I'm here all week btw
    comment by kitd · 2025-11-16 · in Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust
  4. Could you compare it with Boa? It is written in Rust too. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
    comment by maxloh · 2025-11-16 · in Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust
  5. …I have been following the Rust Boa project, but I think that it isn't production ready, yet. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
    comment by gardaani · 2024-11-18 · in Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine
  6. Sorry, the canonical link should be https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
    comment by triyambakam · 2022-11-03 · in Boa, an experimental JavaScript lexer, parser and interpreter written in Rust
  7. …a good demonstration of this (it uses the GC crate, but the same principle probably applies). [1]: https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
    comment by zamalek · 2022-04-29 · in Implementing a safe garbage collector in Rust
  8. …to note that I didn't mention in the original post I've since found: - Boa (JS engine in Rust) – https://github.com/boa-dev/boa - RSLint (JS/TS linter in Rust) – https://github.com/rslint/rslint - Node version manager in Rust –…
    comment by leerob · 2021-11-11 · in Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure
  9. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
    comment by eatonphil · 2021-07-11 · in Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript engine and Rust
  10. …interpreter be too slow for your use case? I can find a few of those written in Rust (e.g. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa ), although some look abandoned and others seem incomplete.
    comment by matt_kantor · 2020-12-20 · in AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly