checkout how conformant QuickJS is with the modern ES standards https://test262.report/ (especially compared with other engines developed by big teams and companies behind them)
Fabrice Bellard is a genius, and I really don't like using this word.
Fabrice Bellard is a genius, and I really don't like using this word.
Anything else u remember about him?
Yeah, I read about a cool tech and half the time he's behind it. When I learned about the rocketman flying near an airport a few weeks ago I was surprised it wasn't him testing his new rocket engine 3d printed in his basement! ;)
- TCC [1]: Of course, QuickJS is not the first language implementation he's written.
- Pi calculation [2]: Once the world record holder (and opening the era of pi computation in commodity PCs), this surely inspired his next great invention:
- LibBF [3]: A good and small arbitrary-precision number library. I think LibBF is a byproduct of NumCalc [4], and he has probably seen a way to the full language implementation using LibBF later (the current version of NumCalc is indeed based on QuickJS, sharing the technique used in the current version of JSLinux [5]).
You can actually run X-Windows, Windows 2000, FreeDOS etc in a browser using this.
His implementation of 4G LTE purely in software is also pretty amazing. https://bellard.org/lte/
His other projects: https://bellard.org/