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by rektide 1139 days ago
There's hundreds of programs that can be scripted with embedded Lua. For example, nginx web server, or neovim editor or awesomewm window manager. Having an embedded scripting language gives these systems enormous flexibility & utility.

This series is effectively about doing the same, but embedded Deno instead of Lua. It's showing how to launch Deno runtime, and how to seed those runtime with various hooks to access & manipulate the program it's embedded in.