SpiderMonkey
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- This article is about software. For the animal, see Spider monkey.
SpiderMonkey is the code name for one of two JavaScript engines maintained by Mozilla Foundation, the other being Rhino.
SpiderMonkey is written in C and contains compiler, interpreter, decompiler, garbage collector, standard classes etc. It does not itself provide host environments such as DOM.
It is supposed to be embedded in other applications that provide host environments for JavaScript. The most popular application is Mozilla.
See also
- Rhino
- List of JavaScript engines
- Comparison of JavaScript engines
- JavaScript OSA, a SpiderMonkey inter-process communication language for the Macintosh computer
- Konfabulator, a "widget" making utility for both the Macintosh and Window's platforms that uses the SpiderMonkey engine.
External links
- SpiderMonkey (JavaScript-C) Engine (http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/)