Simon Willison’s Weblog

Fastly Compute@Edge JS Runtime (via) Fastly’s JavaScript runtime, designed to run at the edge of their CDN, uses the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine compiled to WebAssembly.

# 20th September 2022, 10:20 pm / javascript, mozilla, spidermonkey, webassembly, fastly

python-spidermonkey. A Python to JavaScript bridge using Mozilla Spidermonkey. Expose Python objects to JavaScript, or execute JavaScript from Python.

# 14th May 2009, 3:56 pm / bridge, javascript, mozilla, python, pythonspidermonkey, spidermonkey

Spicing Up Embedded JavaScript. John Resig collects the various ways in which a JavaScript interpreter can be hosted by Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby and Java. There are full JS implementations in PHP, Perl and Java; Ruby and Python both have modules that use an embedded SpiderMonkey.

# 15th June 2008, 11:32 am / embedding, java, javascript, john-resig, perl, php, python, ruby, spidermonkey

CouchDB, XML, and E4X. Brilliant—CouchDB now enables SpiderMonkey’s E4X support, meaning CouchDB views can easily query XML documents stored inside JSON objects using E4X syntax.

# 5th March 2008, 12:31 am / christopher-lenz, couchdb, e4x, javascript, json, spidermonkey, xml

ActionMonkey (via) SpiderMonkey + Tamarin = ActionMonkey. New JavaScript engine for Mozilla 2, incorporating code from Adobe’s Open Source ActionScript VM.

# 24th July 2007, 3:29 pm / actionmonkey, actionscript, adobe, javascript, mozilla, spidermonkey, tamarin