KJS (software)

KJS
Original author(s) Harri Porten
Developer(s) KDE
Initial release 2000
Stable release 5.9.0 (April 10, 2015) [±][1]
Preview release 5.2 (June 5, 2014) [±][2]
Type JavaScript engine
Website JavaScript (ECMAScript)

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.[3] Through the WebKit project, JavaScriptCore has since evolved into SquirrelFish Extreme, a JavaScript engine that compiles JavaScript into native machine code.

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