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by aboodman 3178 days ago
PPS - it is probably too late for this, but one of the last things I worked on at Google was Gin:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/lkgr/gi...

A bindings layer for v8 that was specifically intended to make implementing web-style APIs outside of Blink easier. At the time at least, refactoring things like SW out of Blink was ~impossible.
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kentonv 3178 days ago
Doh, indeed, wish I had seen that earlier. V8's raw API is... tricky.
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aboodman 3178 days ago
Darn, I wish you'd seen it too :). Sounds like you came to similar conclusion I did -- using C++ templates to stamp out v8::FunctionTemplate and ObjectTemplate instances.

I was pretty happy about how Gin turned out and always thought it would be nice to put it on Github where it would be easier for people to reuse.

But at the time Chromium still didn't allow all the modern C++ features, so Gin had to depend on base::Callback, which made it hard to extract cleanly.

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