Comment by timschumi 19 hours ago
It's unfortunate that he uploaded this without notable commit history, it would be interesting to see how long it takes a programmer of his caliber to bring up a project like this.
That said, judging by the license file this was based on QuickJS anyway, making it a moot comparison.
This explains a lot. Opus 4.5 gives you access to Bellard after his second cup of coffee.
He is extremely productive in its specialty: the intersection of programming language and system programming. I don't think that makes him superhuman.
It's more a model of what a really talented person who applies themselves building things they enjoy building can do.
I prefer thinking of it this way: if Bellard can make a small JS engine from scratch by himself, what's really stoping you from knocking down this library you are thinking about.
It does say "public repository of..." implying there's a non-public one with real history. Not sure why not upload the main one though.