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denismenacetoday at 7:31 PM1 replyview on HN

Virtually all JavaScript engines are written in compiled languages. (Most runtimes for that matter nut just JS)


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satvikpendemtoday at 7:36 PM

My mistake, I was thinking of the wider ecosystem not the runtime, ie formatters, bundles and linters like Biome, oxc, etc being written in Rust or other compiled languages. That's where I saw the biggest speedup, because developers of them decided to use a compiled language to write them in instead of JS via a JS runtime where you'll inherently be limited by even a JIT language.