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Moddable Blog
Company blog · blog.moddable.com/blogprogramminghardware
Moddable Blog is the company blog at blog.moddable.com, writing about programming and hardware. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in an HN discussion of the SpiderMonkey regex engine as evidence that Moddable had to discard and rebuild its engine to support ES2018 lookbehinds. The comment cites the post as support rather than judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> I have to say, Ducktape looks like it might have superior resource usage for very low memory situations. Don't forget Moddable's XS, which does more with even less and just shipped ECMAScript 2019 (ES10) support. http://blog.moddable.com/blog/es2019/
Comment linking /blog/es2019/
on “JIT-Less V8”Submitted ECMAScript 2019 Comes to XS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor those who care about JavaScript in embedded environments, Moddable released BigInt support in their open-source XS engine a few months ago: http://blog.moddable.com/blog/bigint/
Comment linking /blog/bigint/
on “BigInt Shipping in Firefox”Submitted LittleFS – The Best File System for Embedded Projects? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat reply, thank you for sharing your perspective. First, I confess to some skepticism of the standardization process. For example, consider ES2018 lookbehinds. At the point of standardization, only one browser implemented them: v8. And in the standardized form (arbitrary width) they are very difficult to retrofit onto existing engines. Moddable had to throw their engine out and start over [1]. JSC's YARR still do…
Comment linking /blog/regexp/
on “A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey”Submitted Improving IoT Interoperability: Decentralized Ambient Synchronization Over MDNS as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> It currently uses under 2 MB of disk space and requires a minimum of around 1.5 MB of RAM Wow, that's an absolute unit of a JavaScript runtime compared to Moddable's XS7, which can run real apps on devices with as little as 32KB of RAM. http://blog.moddable.com/blog/moddable-tech-presentation-to-...
Comment linking /blog/moddable-tech-presentation-to-tc-39/
on “Low.js – Node.js for embedded devices”Submitted The Case for Ethernet (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFYI, Moddable's XS JavaScript engine already includes a native preliminary implementation for anyone who wants to play. As a contributor to the standard, their announcement post is also interesting: https://blog.moddable.com/blog/secureprivate/ > SES is not a security model or a security policy. SES is a way to build these using standard JavaScript. By taking this more general approach, SES allows each host to defin…
Comment linking /blog/secureprivate/
on “Secure EcmaScript, a runtime for running third-party code safely”Submitted Optimizing Life Using the XS Performance Profiler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bringing the Moddable SDK (and Modern JavaScript) to the Raspberry Pi Pico as a story · 1 points
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