How many ES5 environments are still in use today?

[Michael J. Ryan]

LibreJS looks like a browser extension, not a JS engine...

Aside, wow, I'm in favor of open-source, but this one is pretty out there.

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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:11 AM Joe Eagar <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:

> LibreJS? The FSF is seriously escalating the plugin/scripting issue?
>
> Joe
>
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:07 PM, J Decker <d3ck0r at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <
>> andrea.giammarchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess when it comes to other projects Wikipedia Wikipedia should be
>>> enough:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ECMAScript_engines
>>>
>>>
>> They're missing at least one...
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/ which looks like it is missing es6
>> features (as of aug last year anyway... still?)
>>
>>
>>> FWIW I think only Chakra, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, Nashorn,
>>> QtScript (although, not standard at all), Duktape, Moddable (R.I.P.
>>> Kinoma), Espruino, MuJS (new to me!), and JerryScript are the actively
>>> used/developed/maintained, and the list misses GJS, but I guess that's
>>> because it's based on SpiderMonkey.
>>>
>>> Purely ES5 start with IE9 on browser land, but includes IE11 too which
>>> is still quite popular.
>>>
>>> Not fully ES2015 is Chrome 49 which is the latest Chrome version
>>> supported in both Windows XP and Vista and there are still users that won't
>>> let that old/cracked OS go, regardless all security issues they have.
>>>
>>> Opera 36 is at the same state of Chrome 49, and things are pretty
>>> different on mobile too.
>>>
>>> All phones from 2015 are stuck behind older Android versions or, even
>>> worst, Samsung Internet, like it is for the Galaxy A3 case which is still a
>>> pretty good looking phone.
>>>
>>> However, Samsung Browser 4.0 is not too bad compared to IE11, as you can
>>> see in this gist:
>>>
>>> https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/1411b420574c1cc4b4f08fcf9cd960c8#gistcomment-2399378
>>>
>>> Have I answered your question ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:18 PM, /#!/JoePea <joe at trusktr.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm curious to know how many pure ES% environments (with or without
>>>> non-standard features like __proto__, and without any ES6 features) are
>>>> still being used in the wild.
>>>>
>>>> Would this come down to a browser statistics lookup? I believe there
>>>> are other projects that use ES, like Rhino, Espruino, etc. Do you know of
>>>> some place to get such statistics besides for browsers?
>>>>
>>>> */#!/*JoePea
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