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The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts...
No sooner had WinterCG been formed to start defining a common ground for all these new JavaScript runtimes popping up than Bun appeared, quickly raising$7 million[archive] to provide serverless hosting, continuous integration, and… edge computing. But with iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, WebOS, Symbian, Samsung Bada, and Firefox OS all vying for market share at once, developing for just one platform posed a significant opportunity cost. Many Smart TVs run forks of desktop web browsers, with additional APIs for interacting with native TV functionality such as the broadcast stream, object carousel, remote control keysets, and DRM systems.
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