Is there a native machine code compiler for JavaScript? [closed]

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As far as I know, there are no static compilers for JavaScript. It is certainly theoretically possible; however, a static compilation of JavaScript would need a very heavyweight runtime to support all of its features (such as dynamic typing and eval). As a small aside, when presented with the need to statically compile Python (another dynamic language), the PyPy developers ended up creating a language which was a very restricted subset of Python (called RPython), void of some of Python’s more dynamic features, that was capable of being statically compiled.

If you’re asking this for the purpose of creating a standalone executable from JavaScript code, I’m sure there must be wrappers which essentially would create an executable containing your script and an embedded JavaScript VM (sadly, I don’t know any offhand).

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