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by angersock 4474 days ago
Bloody wonderful!

I'm quite pleased to see a compact and reasonable C interface for a JS engine--v8 can go eat a bag of rocks.
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eropple 4474 days ago
Agreed. I really like the engineering behind V8, but the interface is such a pain to work with. I actually switched my game from C++ to the JVM so I could use Rhino.
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_pmf_ 4473 days ago
> I actually switched my game from C++ to the JVM so I could use Rhino.

Would you mind elaborating a bit what makes v8 tedious to work with?

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angersock 4473 days ago
https://developers.google.com/v8/embed

EDIT:

V8 is quite powerful, don't get me wrong. But, it requires a bit more knowledge of C++ to use and use well, and sometimes that can be a bit much. Also, if you're exporting functionality via a static library, you really don't always want to use anything other than vanilla C.

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