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 [email protected], Twitter (@insidefbmobile) or Instagram (insidefbmobile). Topics Discussed Hermes: 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