StarlingMonkey is a SpiderMonkey-based JavaScript runtime optimized for use in WebAssembly Components.
Its built-in functionality targets WASI 0.2.0 and provides a Component Model-based event loop.
The runtime implements important web platform APIs, including Fetch, WHATWG Streams and text encoding. Its modular architecture lets developers add custom built-ins and host APIs for specific deployment environments.
StarlingMonkey can evaluate dynamically loaded JavaScript or create specialized WebAssembly Components containing an application and its runtime. The latter approach offers faster startup and is suited to server-side JavaScript workloads.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Uses Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine.
- Optimized for WebAssembly Components.
- Targets WASI 0.2.0.
- Provides a Component Model-based event loop.
- Implements the Fetch API.
- Supports WHATWG Streams and text encoding APIs.
- Offers a modular architecture with extensible built-ins.
- Supports custom host APIs.
- Evaluates dynamically loaded JavaScript code.
- Creates specialized WebAssembly Components for faster startup.
- Runs with Component Model-aware runtimes such as Wasmtime.
- Used by Fastly’s JavaScript Compute platform and Fermyon’s Spin JavaScript SDK.
Website: github.com/bytecodealliance/StarlingMonkey
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Developer: Bytecode Alliance
License: Apache License 2.0
StarlingMonkey is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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