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by vorpalhex 2291 days ago
It doesn't matter if it was a Delphi interpreter. Having an unsandboxed interpreter running unsigned code was a stupid move. That some C++ developer thought it wise to do this is perhaps part of the issue.

V8 on the server has a very nice eventloop that's very easy to leverage for high performance while avoiding horrifying overflow issues and fits well for a large majority of web request/response patterns while still offering significant developer speed.