JavaScript and WebAssembly engine maintained by the Mozilla Foundation
This article is about the software. For the primate, see Spider monkey. For other uses, see Spider monkey (disambiguation).
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SpiderMonkey
Developer(s)
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Corporation
Repository
github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey
Written in
C, C++, Rust
Operating system
Cross-platform
Platform
IA-32, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, SPARC,[1] RISC-V[2]
Type
JavaScript and WebAssembly engine
License
MPL 2.0[3]
Website
spidermonkey.dev
SpiderMonkey is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by the Mozilla Foundation.[4]
It is the first JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, and later released as open source and currently maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. It is used in the Firefox web browser.
^"1.8.8 – SpiderMonkey | MDN". Developer.mozilla.org. 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
^"SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 110-111)". spidermonkey.dev. 16 February 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
^Mozilla Licensing Policies, mozilla.org, archived from the original on 2 April 2013, retrieved 26 March 2013
^"Home". SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
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The Colombian spidermonkey (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris) is a subspecies of the Black-headed spidermonkey, a type of New World monkey, found in Colombia...
include the brilliant spidermonkey, the common spidermonkey, the red spidermonkey, the Panama spider ape, and the Azuero spidermonkey; the latter two of...
interpreter for the nascent language Eich invented. (This evolved into the SpiderMonkey engine, still used by the Firefox browser.) Google debuted its Chrome...
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The Nicaraguan spidermonkey (Ateles geoffroyi geoffroyi) is a subspecies of Geoffroy's spidermonkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America...
decompiler and a garbage collector. Products which embed SpiderMonkey include Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and many non-Mozilla applications. Rhino is a free...
as woolly spidermonkeys, are the monkeys of the genus Brachyteles. They are closely related to both the spidermonkeys and the woolly monkeys. The two...
supported by SpiderMonkey (used in Firefox and Thunderbird), but has been removed. In Firefox 10, E4X syntax was no longer accepted in SpiderMonkey when ECMAScript...
named JavaScript in December. Simultaneously, he designed the first SpiderMonkey engine, to execute the new language in the Navigator browser. When Mozilla...
sideways-facing nostrils. Monkeys in the family Atelidae, such as the spidermonkey, are the only primates to have prehensile tails. New World monkeys' closest relatives...
along with the muriquis (Brachyteles), the spidermonkeys (Ateles) and woolly monkeys (Lagotrix). The monkeys are native to South and Central American forests...
or New World monkeys, and include marmosets, tamarins, and capuchin, squirrel, night, titi, saki, howler, spider, and woolly monkeys. Platyrrhini is...
The Azuero spidermonkey (Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis) is a possible subspecies of spidermonkey that is in critical danger of extinction according to...
small animals (including insects and spiders). Some characteristics are shared among the groups; most New World monkeys have long tails, with those in the...
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