ACE (Ajax Code Editor) VS QuickJS

I used a note system built on top of Fossil as my primary system for quite a while. Here are the details in case anyone is interested. Fossil allows CGI extensions[1]. There's a database for tickets, but that's just a regular SQLite table that you can use to store anything you want, and it's version controlled and queryable. I stored the notes plus metadata in the tickets database. The CGI returned HTML with the... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Hey there! Thanks for reaching out. Writing a code editor with syntax highlighting in a browser can be a little tricky, but it's definitely doable. One resource that might be helpful is the Ace Editor library (https://ace.c9.io/). It's a lightweight but powerful editor that includes syntax highlighting for a huge range of languages. You could also check out CodeMirror (https://codemirror.net/), which is another... Source: about 1 year ago

The frontend uses the ace editor for syntax highlighting and then sends all the "text" you have typed to a python backend. The backend then writes all the text to a temporary directory and calls the compiler using subprocess (something similar to os.system). Source: over 1 year ago

It is built using Reveal.js and Ace, and is a simple markdown presentation tool right in the browser. Source: over 1 year ago

This would cool to use as an embedded editor browser plugin. Surfingkeys' quirky vim emualation editor, Ace, could be replaced. For example. I think there are other plugins that emulate vim or remotely use neovim, but this approach would be so much better. Source: almost 2 years ago

QuickJS is well known and has been around for a while: https://bellard.org/quickjs/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Just go with quickjs, I think this is what you are looking for. https://bellard.org/quickjs/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

There is a readme on the project's main page: https://bellard.org/quickjs/ The newsworthy bit here is that the activity seemed to have stalled for year or two and now Fabrice pushed a few fixes and made a new release. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

> I am still confused, it's a JavaScript runtime intended to be deployed to JavaScript/Wasm runtimes? Seemingly. > Why does a JavaScript runtime need a JavaScript runtime? Because if you want to create a Service Worker server for CloudFlare Workers and other JavaScript/Wasm runtimes, that's the only option for doing that AFAIK. FWIW, this isn't a new idea. For example, Figma uses QuickJS... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I started writing a small static site generator for myself using JavaScript and QuickJS by Fabrice Bellard[1]. QuickJS is not quite complete, and there are some cross-platform inconsistencies, but overall I found it pleasant to use and its libc wrappers to be powerful enough. I also found that JavaScript is actually pleasant to use when I'm not using classes, or dealing with metaprogramming/Babel, or implicit... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago