QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine - quickjs-ng/quickjs

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QuickJS, a lightweight JavaScript engine, has been revitalized by a friendly fork initiated in October 2023 by @bnoordhuis and @saghul. This fork aimed to re-engage the original authors, @bellard and @chqrlie. By December 2023, the collaboration led to both parties working together and merging their efforts, with full integration projected for early 2024.

quickjs-ng/quickjs: QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine

we got bun after that winterjs now quickjs?
winterjs is with Rust
Bun is written with Zig which the elders says it’s the next generation of C++
but quickjs is based on C
that’s fast enough to boot a OS on top of it and still ride cool with it. But it requires professional experts in memory managment who can handle things like stackoverflow prettry well