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New JavaScript engine written in Rust

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2025-11-15 · latest 2026-01-04

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  1. …74k LoC (vs 1.3M for V8) and it's 97% compatible with ES6? That's a staggering accomplishment. https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone
    comment by ForHackernews · 2026-01-04 · in JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine
  2. Brimstone does embed Unicode tables, but a smaller set than Boa embeds: https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone/tree/master/icu . Brimstone does try to use the minimal set of Unicode data needed for the language itself. But I imagine…
    comment by HansHalverson · 2025-11-16 · in Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust
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    Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust
    story by ivankra · 2025-11-16 · 118 comments
  4. …Rust engines: https://ivankra.github.io/javascript-zoo/?v8=true Personally, I'm more impressed with https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone - it is faster, nearly just as full featured (almost full ES2025) and last but not least, a…
    comment by ivankra · 2025-11-15 · in Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust