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You cannot call it as a JavaScript runtime in 100 lines of code.

You are basically using deno's runtime. So it's not totally yours.

This is just a wrapper.

I have to admit that before opening this link i thought that it could be a kind of wrapper or using the V8 engine or something else.

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> This is just a wrapper.

To be fair to the author, this project shows how to do IO with the wrapper. It binds filesystem and web request APIs, so they work. This doesn't just evaluate pure JavaScript functions using Deno.

But yes, from the title, I was hoping for some insanely succinct lexer, parser, and eval loop.

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