[hajile]

If memory serves, a real world example was Angular doing a toString then injecting dependencies before calling eval on the new code.

To be honest, I don’t know that there’s ever a good reason to use it in production as it almost always involves performance and security problems.

[davidmurdoch]

> involves performance [...] problems

Except when it solves them! https://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to...

[postalrat]

I once used it for a proof of concept for computer worm type message on a sort of message board. Used to re-generate the source code to be added to new messages.