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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by fb03 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:00PM (#17084775)
we should just implement js in js and go full circle already.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by tlrobinson on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:28PM (#17085640)
Done, by Brendan Eich, in 2004: https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus/
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by bpicolo on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:02PM (#17084794)
There's a bunch: https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by madeofpalk on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:05PM (#17085974)
not full circle enough https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by securityfreak on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:42PM (#17087655)
Best tech talk ever!
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by EMRZ on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:10PM (#17085493)
Just wait for the Electron browser...
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by bartread on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:39PM (#17085734)
Given the somewhat non-awesome performance and resource requirements of some of the Electron apps out there, waiting might end up as the defining experience of an Electron browser.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by RandallBrown on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:11PM (#17088420)
Mozilla has used their rendering engine to render their UI for YEARS. Not sure if they're still using XUL with their latest few updates though.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by yoklov on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:47AM (#17089041)
XUL is still alive but XBL is at least going away now. XUL will probably eventually go away too.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by Izkata on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:21PM (#17086109)
What, like this? https://blog.jscrambler.com/building-a-web-browser-using-ele...
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by moogly on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:31PM (#17087596)
Brave is built on Electron, IIRC.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by roywiggins on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:02PM (#17084795)
already done: https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by samatman on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:01AM (#17088855)
I have done this.

In continuation passing style.

AMA.

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