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by petercooper 21 days ago
Criticism noted! But it is experimental, unconstrained FFI is inherently unsafe, and not all JavaScript developers are "mildly educated web devs".

I doubt we'll see this go into mainstream dependencies likely to be used by such developers – it hasn't in Ruby which has had easily accessible FFI mechanisms for years.

Though, there is already a fun experiment using it: https://blog.platformatic.dev/destino-doom-terminal-nodejs-f...