Brought to you by Meta. In addition to remaining active in the open source community and conference circuit, this podcast offers another channel that allows us to highlight the technical work of our engineers who will discuss everything from low-level frameworks to end-user features. Throughout the podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) will interview developers in the company.
17: Hermes JS Engine Development with Marc
Every time we get to talk about an open-source project on our podcast, we couldn't be happier. This episode we have Marc to talk about Hermes, an open-source JavaScript engine, optimised for running React Native apps on Android. You can listen to Marc explain why it was necessary to build a JavaScript engine to support the needs of a particular framework and get a glimpse of the architecture and the design decisions behind it. Tune in now for episode 17! Please do send us feedback! You can reach us via email mobilepodcasts@fb.com, Twitter (@insidefbmobile) or Instagram (insidefbmobile).
Topics DiscussedHermes: https://hermesengine.dev/ React Native: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/hermes
Timestamps- Intro 00:05
- Interview: Marc 00:57
- Hermes Overview 02:25
- Design Tradeoffs 07:01
- Garbage Collector 11:56
- Feature Omissions 15:36
- Hermes Technical Design 17:35
- Developer Experience 19:23
- What's Next? 20:15
- Using Hermes Without RN 21:32
- Outro 22:28
- Bloopers 00:25:50