alt Hacker NewsIf anyone wants to try out MicroQuickJS in a browser here's a simple playground interface for executing a WebAssembly compiled version of it: https://tools.simonwillison.net/microquickjs
It's a variant of my QuickJS playground here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/quickjs
The QuickJS page loads 2.28 MB (675 KB transferred). The MicroQuickJS one loads 303 KB (120 KB transferred).
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kamranjon • today at 1:54 AM
I was interested to try Date.now() since this is mentioned as being the only part of the Date implementation that is supported but was surprised to find it always returns 0 for your microquickjs version - your quickjs variant appears to return the current unix time.
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throwaway290 • today at 3:22 AM
The most important thing about any new JS runtime in 2025, how do I use it from JS? /s
Looks like those sizes could be improved significantly, as the builds include names etc. I would suggest linking with
emcc -O3
(and maybe even adding --closure 1 )
edit: actually the QuickJS playground looks already optimized - just the MicroQuickJS one could be improved.