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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: spidermonkey</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2022-09-20T22:20:54+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Fastly Compute@Edge JS Runtime</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/20/fastly-computeedge-js-runtime/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2022-09-20T22:20:54+00:00</published><updated>2022-09-20T22:20:54+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/20/fastly-computeedge-js-runtime/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/fastly/js-compute-runtime"&gt;Fastly Compute@Edge JS Runtime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Fastly’s JavaScript runtime, designed to run at the edge of their CDN, uses the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine compiled to WebAssembly.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916019"&gt;phickey on Hacker News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla"&gt;mozilla&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey"&gt;spidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webassembly"&gt;webassembly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fastly"&gt;fastly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="javascript"/><category term="mozilla"/><category term="spidermonkey"/><category term="webassembly"/><category term="fastly"/></entry><entry><title>python-spidermonkey</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/14/pyspider/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-05-14T15:56:21+00:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T15:56:21+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/14/pyspider/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://github.com/davisp/python-spidermonkey"&gt;python-spidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
A Python to JavaScript bridge using Mozilla Spidermonkey. Expose Python objects to JavaScript, or execute JavaScript from Python.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bridge"&gt;bridge&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla"&gt;mozilla&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pythonspidermonkey"&gt;pythonspidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey"&gt;spidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="bridge"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="mozilla"/><category term="python"/><category term="pythonspidermonkey"/><category term="spidermonkey"/></entry><entry><title>Spicing Up Embedded JavaScript</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/15/john/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-06-15T11:32:45+00:00</published><updated>2008-06-15T11:32:45+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/15/john/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/spicing-up-embedded-javascript/"&gt;Spicing Up Embedded JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
John Resig collects the various ways in which a JavaScript interpreter can be hosted by Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby and Java. There are full JS implementations in PHP, Perl and Java; Ruby and Python both have modules that use an embedded SpiderMonkey.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/embedding"&gt;embedding&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java"&gt;java&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-resig"&gt;john-resig&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl"&gt;perl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/php"&gt;php&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby"&gt;ruby&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey"&gt;spidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="embedding"/><category term="java"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="john-resig"/><category term="perl"/><category term="php"/><category term="python"/><category term="ruby"/><category term="spidermonkey"/></entry><entry><title>CouchDB, XML, and E4X</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/5/aboutcmlenz/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-03-05T00:31:34+00:00</published><updated>2008-03-05T00:31:34+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/5/aboutcmlenz/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cmlenz.net/archives/2008/03/couchdb-xml-and-e4x"&gt;CouchDB, XML, and E4X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Brilliant—CouchDB now enables SpiderMonkey’s E4X support, meaning CouchDB views can easily query XML documents stored inside JSON objects using E4X syntax.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christopher-lenz"&gt;christopher-lenz&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/couchdb"&gt;couchdb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/e4x"&gt;e4x&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/json"&gt;json&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey"&gt;spidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml"&gt;xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="christopher-lenz"/><category term="couchdb"/><category term="e4x"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="json"/><category term="spidermonkey"/><category term="xml"/></entry><entry><title>ActionMonkey</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/24/javascriptactionmonkey/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-07-24T15:29:33+00:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T15:29:33+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/24/javascriptactionmonkey/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:ActionMonkey"&gt;ActionMonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
SpiderMonkey + Tamarin = ActionMonkey. New JavaScript engine for Mozilla 2, incorporating code from Adobe’s Open Source ActionScript VM.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/actionmonkey/"&gt;John Resig&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/actionmonkey"&gt;actionmonkey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/actionscript"&gt;actionscript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/adobe"&gt;adobe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mozilla"&gt;mozilla&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spidermonkey"&gt;spidermonkey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tamarin"&gt;tamarin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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