Comment by userbinator
3 years ago
That's beside the point. Open-source is not useful to the smaller players if it is too complex to comprehend and constantly churned.
3 years ago
That's beside the point. Open-source is not useful to the smaller players if it is too complex to comprehend and constantly churned.
That's not the case, though. There are even python modules that let you evaluate JS code in v8 (Chrome's JS interpreter). It'd be pretty trivial for youtube-dl to make use of that if the author thought it was worth doing.
It is the case, not too mention v8 pulls in an extremely expensive c++ compiler in the SDK while quickjs can compile with tinycc.
Open source is not enough anymore, "lean" open source is the way now, SDK included.