How many ES5 environments are still in use today?
Jordan Harband
ljharb at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 06:19:57 UTC 2018
It's quite possible to implement modern JS on very low-powered hardware:
http://www.moddable.com
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Isiah Meadows <isiahmeadows at gmail.com>
wrote:
> There's also JerryScript, which given their target platform, there's *no*
> way they're going to be able to reliably implement much of ES6. They target
> platforms like microcontrollers with less than 100KB of RAM and only a few
> hundred in flash memory. One of their automated test devices really pushes
> against it with its 192KB memory and 1MB flash memory. [2] (Their Raspberry
> Pi is like a supercomputer compared to the other two.)
>
> Also, BTW, Rhino is at least *attempting* to implement some ES6+ features.
> [3] [4]
>
> [1]: http://jerryscript.net/
> [2]: https://www.st.com/resource/en/data_brief/stm32f4discovery.pdf
> [3]: https://mozilla.github.io/rhino/compat/engines.html
> [4]: https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
>
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> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 1:34 AM, N. Oxer <blueshuk2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nobody's mentioned this yet, but Rhino is still in use in Google Apps
>> Script, which means anything related to G suite and scripting (e.g. google
>> sheets macros, google forms scripts) is also stuck at es3-5.
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