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by codermike 1465 days ago
By the way, if you’re interested, I’m the guy behind Microvium. It’s been my pet project for the last few years. It’s very motivating to see all the positive and encouraging feedback. Thank you all!

You can find me @microvium on twitter

3 comments

Great!

Your post didn't link directly to Microvium, so I give it here:

https://microvium.com/

https://github.com/coder-mike/microvium

What would be involved to create a Electron and/or Node alternative with an engine like this?
If by "like this" you mean with snapshotting (e.g. if you prefer snapshotting to bundling https://coder-mike.com/blog/2020/05/15/snapshotting-vs-bundl...), then node doesn't support it because V8 doesn't (yet) support it, but it might be coming!

If by "like this" you mean runs on small devices, maybe check out https://www.neonious-iot.com/lowjs/

Electron is kind of a non starter because the hard part isn't the JS interpreter it's the renderer. Node alternative? Fairly trivial, but then you're missing NPM, and pretty much everything else that makes Node not a toy language.
I enjoyed the smoke video header on top of your website - I love animations that loop but I can't see exactly where the join is!