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chillfox on July 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time...

There are already projects that does JS-to-WASM by bundling a JS interpreter. So, it's likely to make the difference to those clearer.

canadahonk on July 31, 2024 [–]

Yep! Also as it is technically more of an engine/runtime (sometimes) than "just" a compiler, folks in the JS space are more familiar with engine as a term :)

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