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Re:Deno 1.0 by ahupp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:55PM (#23172816)
For this sort of problem Rust's safety guarantees don't buy you all that much. If you're generating machine code and implementing a GC that's not the sort of thing that Rust's typesystem can prove correct.

That said, a rust JS runtime would be amazing just because it's easier to integrate into rust projects.

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Re:Deno 1.0 by klodolph on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:06PM (#23172913)
Well, sure, but a big chunk of the bugs in JRE were in the library, not the code generation or GC.
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Re:Deno 1.0 by ahupp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:17PM (#23173002)
Speaking of: Neon, a system for writing Node libraries in Rust is pretty cool:

https://neon-bindings.com/

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Re:Deno 1.0 by jchw on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:26PM (#23173073)
Not sure exactly how much it buys you but I suspect there’s still room for research especially since Mozilla themselves has interest in a Rust JS JIT. I am curious to see if HolyJIT goes anywhere and what kinds of safety improvements it could potentially offer.
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