Very talented open-source developer Fabrice Bellard who already is well known for his work on QEMU, the Tiny C Compiler, and FFmpeg, has another accomplishment: Micro QuickJS. The Micro QuickJS JavaScript engine can compile and run JavaScript programs with as little as 10 kB of RAM.
Fabrice Bellard yesterday provided an early Christmas gift to JavaScript enthusiasts with Micro QuickJS. This JavaScript engine is designed for embedded systems with minimal memory use. This entire JavaScript engine requires just around 100 kB of ROM, including the C library. The performance of this engine is comparable to that of QuickJS.
Micro QuickJS supports a subset of JavaScript similar in scope to ES5. Micro QuickJS is stricter than ES5. This JavaScript engine is open-source under the MIT license.
Those wishing to checkout the Micro QuickJS project can find the now-public code for it on GitHub.
This isn’t Fabrice Bellard’s first foray into JavaScript but a decade ago he had written a PC emulator in pure JavaScript and previously developed QuickJS as a small and embeddable JavaScript engine. With Micro QuickJS, he’s taking things much further — or rather, smaller.
