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Fair. I meant JS here as in "fully DOM compatible, as-used-in-your-browser JS". JS engines themselves aren't that hard to make (I think there's about 9 or 10 actively maintained ones?), but to make one that's usable in situations that aren't things like node or as a sub-language in a different project... that's far more difficult.


> "fully DOM compatible, as-used-in-your-browser JS"

That's still wrong.

s/DOM//

s/JS/DOM/

Continuing to say JS when you're really talking about what is, again, still in the land of HTML, CSS, etc just confuses things. Viz:

> to make [a JS engine] that's usable in situations that aren't things like node or as a sub-language in a different project... that's far more difficult

It's really, really not about JS. You don't make a browser that's compatible with the Wild Wild Web by adding stuff to the JS engine. You do it by implementing moar browser.




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