May we someday see nodeJS/NwJS using firefox's javascript engine?

[peq42_]

In the past, before this new "Quantum", firefox's javascript engine (Called SpiderMonkey) was a lot slower than chrome's V8 engine. But recently tests are show that this game is changing.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-JavaScript-engine-used-in-Firefox-Quantum-better-than-Google-Chrome-V8

Spoiler

Chrome:

Firefox:

About both engines:
https://developers.google.com/v8/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey

Some more tests:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/20/firefox-private-browsing-vs-chrome-incognito/
http://codecondo.com/firefox-quantum-vs-google-chrome-whos-better-why/

So what's your opinion? Do you expect firefox's SpiderMonkey to surpass Chrome's V8 Engine? Do you think that if so, NodeJS/NwJS will someday start using it? What's your opinion about the future of Javascript(Comparing it to other languages)?

 

[Windows i7]

Node itself uses the V8 engine, and NWJS is based on Node... so it is very unlikely that would happen. A similar project COULD in theory be made however.

 

[peq42_]

Node itself uses the V8 engine, and NWJS is based on Node... so it is very unlikely that would happen. A similar project COULD in theory be made however.

Yes but probably it doesn't have any modifications. Probably all it do is...well... compile and execute javascript. Which will run basically the same way that would in SpiderMonkeys.

Anyway, I'm excited about those news on firefox's javascript engine. Chrome's performance developed a lot when it had many competitors, but once others were "left behind"(and some even gave up on their engines, and started using chromium, like Opera), performance started going down.

 

[Hudell]

People already use spidermonkey (and even MS Edge's JS engine) on node.

 

[LTN Games]

I can't stand firefox JS engine, I always have a 10-30fps drop in all webgl/canvas games, again same thing with the latest release. Although the latest firefox I only tested on Linux and not Windows, I'll check it out on Windows before bashing firefox for it's crappy webgl/canvas performance.

That being said, now that chrome has competition again it won't surprise me if they once again pass Firefox and improve their engine even more. So switching engines just because firefox has another 15minutes of Fame is not smart from a software product standpoint. Having the latest and greatest is good but things change so quickly that in a year it will no longer be all that great lol.

 

[peq42_]

I can't stand firefox JS engine, I always have a 10-30fps drop in all webgl/canvas games, again same thing with the latest release. Although the latest firefox I only tested on Linux and not Windows, I'll check it out on Windows before bashing firefox for it's crappy webgl/canvas performance.

That being said, now that chrome has competition again it won't surprise me if they once again pass Firefox and improve their engine even more. So switching engines just because firefox has another 15minutes of Fame is not smart from a software product standpoint. Having the latest and greatest is good but things change so quickly that in a year it will no longer be all that great lol.

Weird, never had problems with firefox and games...

Anyway, but at least from market viewpoint, it's really great, since Microsoft's browsers are mostly never near as good, Opera gave up on engine competition, and i think that safari is not even a thing anymore for windows/linux.And it's even better since firefox's engine is open.