EXExcavator·Oct 23, 2014
You did have luvmonkey¹, and spidernode².
1: https://github.com/creationix/luvmonkey
2: https://github.com/zpao/spidernode
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creationix / luvmonkey
luvmonkey
Spidermonkey shell with libuv bindings built-in.
3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
39GitHub stars
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What it is
Spidermonkey shell with libuv bindings built-in.
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Where it is used
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- zpao/spidernode · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2014-01-24 20:32:27 UTC to 2014-10-23 19:24:14 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sources"SpiderNode" [1] and "luvmonkey" [2] were two Node experiments using SpiderMonkey (from 2012). The first implemented V8's embedding API on top of SpiderMonkey. The second implemented libuv bindings in SpiderMonkey. Neither project was an official Mozilla project. Mozilla's SpiderMonkey team has (casually) discussed rebooting SpiderNode for server-side ES6 and asm.js support, but nothing is planned.
[1] https://github.com/zpao/spidernode
[2] https://github.com/creationix/luvmonkey
In Introducing Rec RoomYou are thinking of SpiderNode, and/or NodeMonkey. Other than the principals leaving Mozilla for Facebook, this work was superseded by Tim Caswell's Luvmonkey:
https://github.com/creationix/luvmonkey
Turns out Node is really well factored, so emulating the V8 API on top of SpiderMonkey, especially back in 2011 as the Spider-Node-Monkey project tried, is harder. It's the "long way 'round".
Binding libuv to any engine that implements ES5+ is easier and gives Node interop.
As for XULRunner, sorry -- no leverage. If you see some, make it a business and show us up.
In JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013