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QuickJS is amazing. You can put in javascript code, run it through QuickJS and make little binary utilities to run on their own.

Someone took QuickJS and put it in wasm so you can run QuickJS in the browser or in node.

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten

Fabrice Bellard is on another planet when it comes to programming. He also wrote FFmpeg and QEMU (among other things).

I put QuickJS in https://exaequos.com. You can do graphics app with raylib

To be fair, there's no claim being made that this was supposed to be a from-scratch implementation of Javascript. Just an equivalent to Deno/Node which don't have their own implementation of Javascript either.

> there's no claim being made that this was supposed to be a from-scratch implementation of Javascript

That is exactly how I interpreted the title of the article.

He's abandoned it now though.

Not anymore, https://github.com/bellard/quickjs

Finally he upped his maintainance hat. So we can archive our own github versions from the tarballs, with various patches.