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Rhino is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2014-12-11 · latest 2025-08-20

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  1. …the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/ ), which our team works on.
    comment by andreabergia · 2025-08-20 · in The value of hitting the HN front page
  2. fun fact: there is an ongoing effort to bring Wasm to Rhino via Chicory https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/discussions/1485
    comment by evacchi · 2025-02-26 · in Chicory: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime
  3. …guess that depends on the licensing context in which it will be running, since Rhino is MPLv2 < https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/Rhino1_7_14_Release/LI... > and OP's repo is MIT whereas Graal is UPLv1 <…
  4. …https://github.com/tc39/test262 is the ecma test suite. rhino for example has extensive gaps: https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/master/testsrc/test262... It is really frustrating that in the end, there aren't really that many actually…
  5. …Grisu3 (C++) https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/f837290e142d49c9e1... as does Rhino (Java) https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/master/src/org/mozilla...
    comment by murkle · 2017-04-03 · in 0.30000000000000004
  6. …about it. But it is still very difficult to know which fork is more active. For example, see this: https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/network/members