KJS (software)

KJS
Original author(s)Harri Porten
Developer(s)KDE
Initial release2000; 22 years ago (2000)
Stable release
5.42.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 16 January 2018; 12 February 2018; 10 March 2018; 14 April 2018; 9 June 2018; 14 July 2018; 11 August 2018; 8 September 2018; 12 June 2021; 3 July 2021; 6 August 2021; 5 September 2021; 3 October 2021; 7 November 2021; 5 December 2021; 1 January 2022; 5 February 2022; 6 March 2022; 2 April 2022; 8 May 2022; 10 June 2022; Error: first parameter cannot be parsed as a date or time. (16 January 2018; 12 February 2018; 10 March 2018; 14 April 2018; 9 June 2018; 14 July 2018; 11 August 2018; 8 September 2018; 12 June 2021; 3 July 2021; 6 August 2021; 5 September 2021; 3 October 2021; 7 November 2021; 5 December 2021; 1 January 2022; 5 February 2022; 6 March 2022; 2 April 2022; 8 May 2022; 10 June 2022)
Repository
Written inC++
TypeJavaScript engine
Websitetechbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/JavaScript

KJS is KDE's ECMAScript-JavaScript engine that was originally developed for the KDE project's Konqueror web browser by Harri Porten in 2000.

On June 13, 2002, Maciej Stachowiak announced on a mailing list that Apple was releasing JavaScriptCore, a framework for Mac OS X that was based on KJS.[2] Through the WebKit project, JavaScriptCore has since evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript into native machine code.

References

  1. ^ https://cgit.kde.org/kjs.git/tag/?h=v5.42.0; retrieved: 17 January 2018.
  2. ^ Stachowiak, Maciej (2002-06-13). "[KDE-Darwin] JavaScriptCore, Apple's JavaScript framework based on KJS". opendarwin.org. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2015-05-13.

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