Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success
by JosephLark on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:11PM
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I'll add a +1 to this very issue. I likewise am not sure if it's still the case, but a few years ago I was looking into contributing some ES2015 implementations to the FF JS engine but couldn't get Firefox to compile based on the docs. I get that software development involves some amount of grit to grind out a problem and solve it, but to have to do so right at the beginning of possibly contributing to an open source project was asking just a bit too much of my free time and I bailed and have never made the attempt again.
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Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success
by zbraniecki on Saturday September 02, 2017 @03:10PM
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Building SpiderMonkey is not hard at all today: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...
The only issue is that you have to clone whole mozilla-central even if you only work with small part of it. But once you pull it, the building and hacking on it is quite easy :)
Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success
by weaksauce on Saturday September 02, 2017 @02:02PM
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Fwiw if you go to their irc server and go into the introduction channel you can get help on stuff like this. The artifact builds are also much quicker to download and compile too if you don't need to change the c++ core.