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by tracker1 3533 days ago
I'm just not sure I see the value... and in the end, not sure it will work out any better than the DLR attempts with .Net... It's interesting, just not sure I see the value. The Java runtime is about 60mb to download, then the extras for this... vs Node's runtime download under 14mb with a similar amount of library downloads for a given project.

That doesn't include the disconnect from the rest of the JS ecosystem which has centered around npm at this point (at least for the package repository itself, baring the yarn front end).

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Perhaps that's closer to ClearScript (https://clearscript.codeplex.com/) in the .NET environment - although ClearScript has a broader area of application and supports multiple engines.