PRpromiseofbeans·Mar 18, 2025Submission
Spidermonkey: JavaScript Syntactic Quirks
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jsparagus
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mozilla-spidermonkey / jsparagus
jsparagus
Experimental JS parser-generator project.
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Experimental JS parser-generator project.
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sources"attribute grammar" and "novel" in the same statement? Whoa! I tried to publish a paper ~15 years ago on attribute grammars … without success and non-constructive review feedback. I am not aware of any company making use of attribute grammars in production. I had the goal of making use of attribute grammars as part of https://github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey/jsparagus (SmooshMonkey), but making a JavaScript parser generator which is as efficient as our hand-written parser is already surprisingly difficult, and the COVID ended the project.
On the topic of finding a job … I would be of no help. The only internships/jobs I found so far were all outside the usual applications forms:
* By emailing to the author of an R&D language that I was already using, asking if they could make a position for me in their lab.
* From a teacher recommending
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me in the start-up where he worked for building an interpreted language.
* By going to one of the Firefox 4 party, and giving a visit card after seeing a presentation about SpiderMonkey.
Then, if you are interested in applying for a job opening on compilers. There is one right now at Mozilla, on WebAssembly: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/4437801/ … but there is no attribute grammar.