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NeilFraser
JS-Interpreter
JavaScript2014–2026
NeilFraser / JS-Interpreter

JS-Interpreter

A sandboxed JavaScript interpreter in JavaScript.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A sandboxed JavaScript interpreter in JavaScript.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-10-09 01:00:15 UTC to 2026-06-20 23:28:18 UTC.

0122014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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cpcallen·Jun 20, 2026
I was SO excited when I first read this article, as I was at the time implementing shared-global multithreading in a fork of JS Interpreter [1][2] and it was thrilling to think that we might one day have true parallelism in a real JS engine, not just simulated concurrency in our educational toy. Since then I've often wondered if anyone at Apple was still working on this, or if it was just one of those things (like proper tail call support in V8) that was destined never to see the light of day. A year or so ago I tried tracking it down again (apparently I'd not bookmarked it at the time) but alas several search engines responded only with a sea of articles about web workers. Finally, last week I put Gemini on the case and, despite it claiming that it didn't exist and that I must be conflating memories of some other related articles it did
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correctly identify you as the author, after which it was easy to find the link to the original article on your blog. Since re-reading it I've been wondering if it might be possible to implement it with help from AI (not having written any C++ since before the turn of the century I don't think I'd be too successful doing it unassisted!), or whether JSC's internals might have drifted too far in the intervening years. It's delightful that someone else has take a stab at it, and I look forward to seeing where this leads. Thanks for all the work you did laying the groundwork that made it feasible to even contemplate, then contemplating all tricky details and writing the answers down in the form of such an inspiring article. [1] https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter [2] https://github.com/google/CodeCity/blob/fa1bd2734b806559ffaf...
In Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
hollowayaegis·Jul 21, 2021
Haha, both of those cases are killing both the iframe and the UI. I have to get around to using totally different domain on the iframe to really take advantage of the Chrome process isolation. Previously I was using a really nice JS interpreter written in JS[0] before to solve that problem, but it ran 200 times slower than the browser interpreter(!) [0] https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter
In Show HN: Sunflower Editor – like adding console.log to every line of your code

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