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+# ReedJSC
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+Reed is a static, ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler with whole-program type inference
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+Reed uses [QuickJS-NG](https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs) as a frontend and transforms QuickJS bytecode to a form suitable for C code emission
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+> [!WARNING]
+> Work in progress!
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