[aikah]

Well first Duktape is only a Javascript engine. it is not a browser engine so there is no DOM, furthermore Duktape is not ES2015 compliant so you'd need to transpile your code to ES5. It's also debatable whether Duktape is more performant than v8 or not.

> to reduce the memory overhead of some of our favorite Electron apps cough VScode cough Slack.

are not going to take less memory with Duktape at all if the problem is sloppy programming or DOM related.