[apatheticonion]

Deno is such a great project. I would love to see greater support for embedding it into a Rust host process.

I'm writing a JavaScript bundler and need a Node.js runtime to execute plugins. Deno's executable has fantastic Node support (at least, good enough for my use case) however the deno-core crate is super barebones and difficult to embed.

At this stage I can't simply add the deno runtime into my Rust application, I need to copy/paste internal crates from the Deno executable and wire them up myself (without documentation on how).

I'd love to see expansion for my use case - Deno could become the "plugin runtime" for the JS tooling world if it had a nice embed story.

Right now I am just going with a Nodejs child process that I talk to from the Rust host process using stdio. In my tests, the stdio approach has 10x the communication latency when compared to an embedded Deno runtime (that adds ~1 second per round trip message in a project with 100k assets)