ECMAScript/JavaScript engine in pure Go

Is dop251/goja beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, dop251/goja merged 46 of 65 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Forks
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Open beginner issues
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Indexed issues
31
Avg merge
15h 20m
Merged PRs (30d)
48
Dominant language
Go
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 4, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 4, 2026
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How to contribute to dop251/goja

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • TypedArray.prototype.filter writes 0 instead of converting undefined after buffer detachment
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

    dop251/goja#856 ·

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  • Reflect.ownKeys returns prototype before length and name on functions before .prototype is accessed
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    dop251/goja#854 ·

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  • Parser accepts trailing comma after rest element in object destructuring
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

    dop251/goja#852 ·

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  • Crashes found via coverage-guided fuzzing
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dop251/goja#848 · 2 comments ·

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  • explicit-resource-management(Symbol.dispose and using)
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dop251/goja#748 ·

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  • How to await a Promise to resolve or reject?
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

    dop251/goja#694 · 2 comments ·

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  • Yield and resume runtime exection from golang
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    dop251/goja#693 ·

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  • Performance; calling go function
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    dop251/goja#657 · 1 comment ·

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  • require.SourceLoader taking script path as well?
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

    dop251/goja#656 · 1 comment ·

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  • Exposing the entries of a custom `map` instead of its methods
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    dop251/goja#617 · 1 comment ·

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  • Builtin Date locale's methods ignore locale argument
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dop251/goja#572 · 2 comments ·

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  • Support for iterator?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    dop251/goja#515 · 1 comment ·

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  • improving callstacks for calls out to golang
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dop251/goja#513 · 1 comment ·

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  • Add Runtime.ToObject()
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    dop251/goja#509 ·

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  • how to get a resolve value in a promise?
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dop251/goja#508 · 3 comments ·

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  • Upgrade to latest version of ECMAScript 2021/ 2022
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    dop251/goja#498 · 3 comments · 3 reactions ·

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  • new Date().toString() returns shortened timezone
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    dop251/goja#466 · 2 comments ·

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  • Public interface for ToValue customization ?
    May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    dop251/goja#426 · 15 comments · 3 reactions ·

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  • Comparing primitive pointers
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dop251/goja#392 · 4 comments ·

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  • Support import/export aka modules
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    dop251/goja#348 · 3 comments · 16 reactions ·

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  • Two Bugs ( Panic and Stackoverflow)
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dop251/goja#275 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Question: roadmap and some coordination questions
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 5/100

    dop251/goja#167 · 13 comments · 17 reactions ·

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  • Benchmarks and performance data?
    Open
    question

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 12/100

    dop251/goja#2 · 18 comments · 11 reactions ·

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  • Feature Request: ES2015 Support to Match TypeScript 7 Minimum Target
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    dop251/goja#692 · 1 comment · 5 reactions ·

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  • list features in docs, that jumped over ES5.1 (ES6)
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    dop251/goja#420 · 4 comments ·

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