Duktape – Embeddable JavaScript Engine Focused on Portability and Footprint (duktape.org)

How does svaarala do it? He's a one person coding machine. Fantastic work.

And that's something that you can use as a JavaScript engine in Rails, thanks to ExecJS (https://github.com/rails/execjs) and Duktape.rb (https://github.com/judofyr/duktape.rb).

Older discussions:

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8701228

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7455727

«built-in CommonJS-based module loading framework»

I feel like this sort of project seems like a great place to try to get ES2016 modules working from day one, where users a little bit less likely to have existing code they need to run. I realize the Loader spec [1] is still not finished yet, but a project like this could be a good use case to help push it across the finish line.

[1] https://whatwg.github.io/loader/

Edit to add: I hadn't realized how old this project was, so some of this comment is clearly invalidated a bit.