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| author | Franz Glasner <fzglas.hg@dom66.de> |
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| date | Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:43:07 +0200 |
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| 1 <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| 2 <html> | |
| 3 <head> | |
| 4 <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> | |
| 5 <title>MuJS Introduction</title> | |
| 6 </head> | |
| 7 | |
| 8 <body> | |
| 9 | |
| 10 <header> | |
| 11 <h1>MuJS Introduction</h1> | |
| 12 </header> | |
| 13 | |
| 14 <nav> | |
| 15 <a href="introduction.html">Introduction</a> | |
| 16 <a href="reference.html">Reference</a> | |
| 17 <a href="examples.html">Examples</a> | |
| 18 <a href="license.html">License</a> | |
| 19 <a href="http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mujs.git;a=summary">Source</a> | |
| 20 <a href="https://bugs.ghostscript.com/">Bugs</a> | |
| 21 </nav> | |
| 22 | |
| 23 <article> | |
| 24 | |
| 25 <h2>Why choose MuJS?</h2> | |
| 26 | |
| 27 <h3>Javascript is a proven scripting language</h3> | |
| 28 | |
| 29 <p> | |
| 30 Javascript is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. | |
| 31 It is a powerful extension language, used everywhere on the web — both as | |
| 32 a way to add interactivity to web pages in the browser, and on the server side | |
| 33 with platforms like node.js. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 <p> | |
| 36 With MuJS you can bring this power to your application as well! | |
| 37 | |
| 38 <h3>MuJS is standards compliant</h3> | |
| 39 | |
| 40 <p> | |
| 41 MuJS implements ES5. | |
| 42 There are no non-standard extensions, so you can remain confident that | |
| 43 Javascript code that runs on MuJS will also run on any other standards | |
| 44 compliant Javascript implementation. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 <h3>MuJS is portable</h3> | |
| 47 | |
| 48 <p> | |
| 49 MuJS is written in portable C and can be built by compiling a single C file using any standard C compiler. | |
| 50 There is no need for configuration or fancy build systems. | |
| 51 MuJS runs on all flavors of Unix and Windows, on mobile devices (such as Android and iOS), | |
| 52 embedded microprocessors (such as the Beagle board and Raspberry Pi), etc. | |
| 53 | |
| 54 <h3>MuJS is embeddable</h3> | |
| 55 | |
| 56 <p> | |
| 57 MuJS is a simple language engine with a small footprint that you can easily embed into your application. | |
| 58 The API is simple and well documented and allows strong integration with code written in other languages. | |
| 59 You don't need to work with byzantine C++ templating mechanisms, or manually manage garbage collection roots. | |
| 60 It is easy to extend MuJS with libraries written in other languages. | |
| 61 It is also easy to extend programs written in other languages with MuJS. | |
| 62 | |
| 63 <h3>MuJS is small</h3> | |
| 64 | |
| 65 <p> | |
| 66 Adding MuJS to an application does not bloat it. | |
| 67 The source contains around 15'000 lines of C. | |
| 68 Under 64-bit Linux, the compiled library takes 180kB if optimized for size, | |
| 69 and 260kB if optimized for speed. | |
| 70 | |
| 71 Compare this with V8, SpiderMonkey or JavaScriptCore, | |
| 72 which are all several hundred thousand lines of code, | |
| 73 take several megabytes of space, | |
| 74 and require the C++ runtime. | |
| 75 | |
| 76 <h3>MuJS is reasonably fast and secure</h3> | |
| 77 | |
| 78 <p> | |
| 79 It is a bytecode interpreter with a very fast mechanism to call-out to C. | |
| 80 The default build is sandboxed with very restricted access to resources. | |
| 81 Due to the nature of bytecode, MuJS is not as fast as JIT compiling | |
| 82 implementations but starts up faster and uses fewer resources. | |
| 83 If you implement heavy lifting in C code, controlled by Javascript, | |
| 84 you can get the best of both worlds. | |
| 85 | |
| 86 <h3>MuJS is free software</h3> | |
| 87 | |
| 88 <p> | |
| 89 MuJS is free open source software distributed under the | |
| 90 <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/ISC">ISC license</a>. | |
| 91 | |
| 92 <h3>MuJS is developed by a stable company</h3> | |
| 93 | |
| 94 <p> | |
| 95 <a href="http://artifex.com/">Artifex Software</a> has long experience in | |
| 96 interpreters and page description languages, and has a history with open source | |
| 97 that goes back to 1993 when it was created to facilitate licensing Ghostscript | |
| 98 to OEMs. | |
| 99 | |
| 100 </article> | |
| 101 | |
| 102 <footer> | |
| 103 <a href="http://artifex.com"><img src="artifex-logo.png" align="right"></a> | |
| 104 Copyright © 2013-2017 Artifex Software Inc. | |
| 105 </footer> | |
| 106 | |
| 107 </body> | |
| 108 </html> |