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Backends & tooling. Working on a JS runtime, Maligator, for learning purposes.
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And with a final push of adding TODO's everywhere, we got function declarations and calling working 🤓
Execution of local.js via Maligator: ``` function add(a, b) { return a + b; } add(1, 2); ``` With result: ``` EngineValue { type: 'number', data: { value: 3 } } ```
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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Builtin function calls landed in Maligator! Now supporting calling isFinite, isNaN, parseInt and parseFloat :)
Code snippet containing JS: const int = parseInt("5", 10) const finite = isFinite(int); finite; Shell executing Maligator: maligator [main][+241/-][ v24.12.0] ❯ node ./src/engine/tmp.ts { type: 'normal', value: EngineValue { type: 'boolean', data: { value: true } } }
January 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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With if-statements and (do-)while-loops supported in Maligator, it all starts to get some shape.
let x = 0; while (true) { if (x === 2) { break; } x++; } x; ❯ node ./src/engine/tmp.ts { type: 'normal', value: EngineValue { type: 'number', data: { value: 2 } } }
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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Chipped away at a few more things, so updating variables is supported as well. As well as some relational expressions. Next up are the if-, while-, etc-statements.
❯ node ./src/engine/tmp.ts 'let x = 1, y = 2; let xSmallerThenOne = 1 < 2; x++; x === y && xSmallerThenOne' { type: 'normal', value: EngineValue { type: 'boolean', data: { value: true } } }
January 8, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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Got basic variables going! Skipped the static semantics for now, which suggest to initialize all new variable bindings before executing a block.
Also an interesting thing in the spec is that `undefined` and a few others are properties on `global`. So only now can `undefined` actually be resolved.
❯ node ./src/engine/tmp.ts 'let x = 5, y = 5; { x + y; }' { type: 'normal', value: EngineValue { type: 'number', data: { value: 10 } } }
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Over the holidays I have started to work on a JavaScript engine. Mainly to get more experience w/ specification driven interpreter development, learning some new intricacies of JS and having a big project where lots of parts can be implemented without much thinking
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM