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Porffor: A from-scratch experimental ahead-of-time JS engine
Porffor is a unique JS engine/compiler/runtime, compiling JS code to WebAssembly or native ahead-of-time.
Porffor's WebAssembly output is much faster and smaller compared to existing JS -> Wasm projects. Porffor is written from the ground-up with AOT in mind instead of being based on any existing JS engine. Porffor supports TypeScript input, no clunky transpiler step needed: just feed it a TS file.
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