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by randyrand 1383 days ago
Chrome and Safari both have open source JS engines…
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userbinator 1383 days ago
That's beside the point. Open-source is not useful to the smaller players if it is too complex to comprehend and constantly churned.
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kelnos 1383 days ago
That's not the case, though. There are even python modules that let you evaluate JS code in v8 (Chrome's JS interpreter). It'd be pretty trivial for youtube-dl to make use of that if the author thought it was worth doing.
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sylware 1382 days ago
It is the case, not too mention v8 pulls in an extremely expensive c++ compiler in the SDK while quickjs can compile with tinycc.

Open source is not enough anymore, "lean" open source is the way now, SDK included.

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