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# Welcome to QuickJS-NG
QuickJS is a small and embeddable JavaScript engine. It aims to support the latest
[ECMAScript] specification.
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This project is a _fork_ of the [original QuickJS project] by Fabrice Bellard and Charlie Gordon, after it went dormant, with the intent of reigniting its development.
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This project is focused on (but not limited to):
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- Community development
- Testing
- Cross-platform support
- ES features
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You can check the differences with the original project [here. ](./diff )
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This site is under construction, the entire API is not yet documented.
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## Getting Started
Head over to [building ](./building ) if you want to build QuickJS from source or [installation ](./installation )
for installing it from prebuilt binaries.
[ECMAScript]: https://tc39.es/ecma262/
[original QuickJS project]: https://bellard.org/quickjs
