Huawei Hongmeng continues to open up: Ark JS runtime is officially open source

[[422334]]

In order to survive in the gap between Android and iOS, Huawei's HarmonyOS system has taken an open path to attract developers.

As early as two years ago, Huawei's Ark Compiler (Open Ark Compiler) was officially open source. Since then, it has continued to deepen its development, and the compiler, engine, debugger, etc. have been gradually open sourced, and support for C language has been added.

Now, Ark JS Runtime is also open source.

The Ark JS runtime is the runtime used by JavaScript applications on OpenHarmony . It includes an allocator and garbage collector (GC) for JS objects, a standard library that complies with the ECMAScript specification, an interpreter for running the Ark bytecode generated by the Ark front-end component, an inline cache for storing hidden classes, an external function interface (AFFI) and other modules.

The Runtime component is a common component of the Ark runtime, mainly including some language-independent basic runtime libraries, including the Ark File that carries the bytecode and related information needed to execute the bytecode, the Tooling that supports the Debugger, and the Ark Base responsible for the corresponding system calls.