SpiderMonkey
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This article is about the software. For the primate, see Spider monkey. For other uses, see Spider monkey (disambiguation).
SpiderMonkey is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by the Mozilla Foundation.[4]
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Developer(s) | |
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Repository | github |
Written in | C, C++, Rust |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | IA-32, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, SPARC,[1] RISC-V[2] |
Type | JavaScript and WebAssembly engine |
License | MPL 2.0[3] |
Website | spidermonkey |
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It is the first JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, and later released as open source and currently maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. It is used in the Firefox web browser.