WinterJS - A New Javascript Runtime

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[weeb]

at this rate js runtimes will outpace new AI models.

[tinrab]

Why are we still benchmarking "no-op" HTTP servers? There should be higher standards for what we consider acceptable benchmarks.

[StarContract]

"Hardware is 100 times faster, which let me write programs that are 100 folds slower." - Modern Web Developers

[zacharythomasrobertson]

Let's face it. Developing a new JS framework has become the minimum requirement for an internship application at a startup that will last as long as the initial vc funding will take it.

[efezlfn]

While I was watching this video, 2 new runtimes, 8 new frontend frameworks, and approx 1 billion js libraries were released.

[_vicary]

So is just those 3 big thing again:
1. Google V8 for node
2. Apple JSC for bun
3. Mozilla SpiderMonkey for WinterJS

[AdityaPimpalkar]

Love it when he tells his editor to do something and he doesn't listen XD

[yamyam]

Days since last JavaScript tool: -9000

[kamiljanowski]

That lightning reminds me of something else :P
"WINAMP Winamp winamp. It really whips the lamma's ass"

[andythedishwasher]

Wait a second, you had Spider Monkey right next to Tokio and we didn't even get a TOKIOOO? What have you become, Prime? I love Go as much as the next dev, but let's not forget where we came from.

[hughmanwho]

Only trust benchmarks where you can run it yourself on your own machine and see the numbers

[toast_dev]

I like the format of trying to explain things using the whiteboard

[Matt_Kumar]

Hey, I'm currently watching this video but I right away wanted to comment that your diagram and explanation on runtime and framework was probably the clearest I've come across yet. Thank you for this... helpful for me navigating this stuff

[KyleHarrisonRedacted]

Lol “Fastest” and “SpiderMonkey” are words that have no business being in the same sentence as each other

[oribennett]

Was just reading this article, and wished I had your input and boom! Here it is, thanks

[monostate]

are we still making JavaScript runtimes? haven't we learned anything?

[josefaguilar]

I love how the thumbnail is Prime looking towards the future but as soon as you click he's shaking his head and already upset. Classic Prime 😂

[digie]

I love it when there's something new in JS, it's always advertised as fastest or faster

[__kvik]

I wrote an HTTP server in C++ using Drogon. It was ridiculously fast when serving pre-rendered pages, going up to a million req/s, easily beating Go doing the same. However, as soon as I started doing a bit of templating using various existing and naive JSON-in-the-middle approaches this dropped way down, sometimes to under 100k req/s. I then spent a bunch of time writing an inline templating engine based on libfmt that was able to go close to 700k req/s on a real workload.

Oh, and by the way, the server in question was only ever intended to serve a single lone user at a time on a closed network, so that time spent turbo optimizing the hell out of it was suuuper worthy.

[a-yo]

2019: fastest thing in the world was release of a new JavaScript framework
2024: scratch that fastest thing in the world is release of a new js runtime environment