mozilla-spidermonkey/spidermonkey-embedding-examples
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Documentation and examples for embedding the SpiderMonkey JavaScript / WebAssembly engine in their applications.
5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2020-01-02 · latest 2025-05-20
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SpiderMonkey Embedding Resourcesstory by mliezun · 2025-05-20 · 1 comment
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And the fact that polkit uses it is why debian and ubuntu use an ancient version of polkit. And fwiw, there is an effort to replace spidermonkey in polkit with something else, like duktape. Also js78 uses the version of spidermoneky from…
comment by thayne · 2022-01-12 · in Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base? -
Another helpful link for your stack https://github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey/spidermonkey-embeddi...
comment by donatj · 2022-01-12 · in Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base? -
If SpiderMonkey works for you for this purpose, what's changed? It has been available (but officially unsupported) as a standalone embedding target for many many years. Though it hasn't necessarily been easy to figure out the state of…
comment by sfink · 2021-05-06 · in SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine -
I've never tried, but Mozilla's example doesn't look that hard. https://github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey/spidermonkey-embeddi... The big issue (like with v8) is binary size. Double-digit megabytes before you even start running code is…
comment by hajile · 2020-01-02 · in Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript engine, with a focus on portability