nuitka VS QuickJS

This is a good place to mention https://nuitka.net/ which aims to compile python programs into standalone binaries. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

For Python, you could make a proper deployment binary using Nuitka (in standalone mode – avoid onefile mode for this). I'm not pretending it's as easy as building a Go executable: you may have to do some manual hacking for more unusual unusual packages, and I don't think you can cross compile. I think a key element you're getting at is that Go executables have very few dependencies on OS packages, but with Python... - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

There is already an AOT compiler for Python: Nuitka[0]. But I don't think it's much faster. And then there is mypyc[1] which uses mypy's static type annotations but is only slightly faster. And various other compilers like Numba and Cython that work with specialized dialects of Python to achieve better results, but then it's not quite Python anymore. [0] https://nuitka.net/ [1] - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Nuitka deals pretty well with those in general: https://nuitka.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Have a look at Nuitka, which is a "real" Python compiler into C. It uses CPython in its backend and should be completely compatible to "regular" Python. The compiled code can, but does not have to improve performance. It's probably worth looking into. Source: about 1 year 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