Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust

Re:Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust by cjbprime on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:08PM (#22103443)

I wonder what Rust is being used for here.

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Re:Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust by tbrock on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:32PM (#22103587)

Dahl wrote rust bindings for V8 and Deno itself is a rust project.

You can think of it as a large rust wrapper around C++ Javascript runtime.

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Re:Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust by kevinkassimo on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:42PM (#22103639)

The Rust v8 wrapper used in Deno is rusty_v8: https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8

The whole privileged side (except for v8 itself) is in Rust.

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Re:Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust by dentemple on Monday January 20, 2020 @09:59PM (#22103969)

It's probably for the same reason that Node.js uses C++. Javascript is not understood natively by your hardware, so bindings are created to facilitate interaction between the programmer and lower level processes.

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Re:Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust by chrisco255 on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:50PM (#22103679)

Eh, a significant product that is relevant to both the JavaScript community and the Rust community deserves top billing here.

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Re:Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust by 40four on Monday January 20, 2020 @09:59PM (#22103973)

The project was originally written in Go, then they decided to switch to Rust after a while.

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