Duktape is an embeddable Javascript engine, with a focus on portability and compact footprint.
Duktape is easy to integrate into a C/C++ project: add duktape.c, duktape.h, and duk_config.h to your build, and use the Duktape API to call ECMAScript functions from C code and vice versa.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Embeddable, portable, compact: can run on platforms with 160kB flash and 64kB RAM.
- ECMAScript E5/E5.1, with some semantics updated from ES2015+.
- Partial support for ECMAScript 2015 (E6) and ECMAScript 2016 (E7), see Post-ES5 feature status and kangax/compat-table.
- ES2015 TypedArray and Node.js Buffer bindings.
- CBOR bindings.
- Encoding API bindings based on the WHATWG Encoding Living Standard.
- performance.now().
- Built-in debugger.
- Built-in regular expression engine.
- Built-in Unicode support.
- Minimal, retargetable platform dependencies.
- Combined reference counting and mark-and-sweep garbage collection with finalization.
- Coroutines.
- Property virtualization using a subset of ECMAScript ES2015 Proxy object.
- Bytecode dump/load for caching compiled functions.
- Distributable includes an optional logging framework, CommonJS-based module loading implementations, etc.
Website: duktape.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Sami Vaarala
License: MIT License
Duktape is written in JavaScript and C. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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