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Currently, we're utilizing a forked version of QuickJS, aka quickjspp, as opposed to the original QuickJS. The original version has received numerous updates that significantly enhance its compatibility with ES2023 recently.

Our choice to use quickjspp is primarily due to its support for MSVC compilation. However, there's a concern that if quickjspp doesn't keep up with the latest updates from the original repository, we might fall behind as well. It raises the question of whether it's time to consider other options.

To be frank, the current ecosystem is somewhat perplexing, with multiple versions of quickjs in existence, including Bellard's original and several forks:

• Bellard's original version https://github.com/bellard/quickjs, tons of updates recently. Let's simply refer to it as quickjs.
• The version we are currently utilizing, c-smile's fork, also known as quickjspp https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp, the one we are using
• quickjs-ng, termed the next generation https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs
• some other forks, but not not widely used

It seems that quickjs-ng is the one we shall choose and txiki.js has chosen it. This fork version came up just before Bellard committed the recent updates, so now, it seems a little awkward.
I can not figure out the future of quickjs-ng or quickjs, will they merge together or develop separately?

The most important, both of them have not supported MSVC yet, though there are some discussion on quickjs-ng

I will keep monitoring their progress and update accordingly.