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Here's an example [0] where Googles showed they preferred their ICU implementation over system, in effect, remaining self-sufficient & neutral of the embedder's concern. And as an independent embedder with a non-public project (as of yet), I prefer that neutrality.

For other embedders, however, like TeaJS, SilkJS, v8-juice/cvv8, narwahlJS, this was probably their undoing, at least in my opinion. Stephen Beal considered it lack of documentation & support [1]. I have seen a concerted effort over the past 12 months to improve that.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/v8-users/support/...

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/v8-users/MUq5WrC2kcE/Z3LyOmE...