Comment by rcarmo
10 months ago
So, instead of using something lightweight and embeddable like QuickJS, they opted for Deno? Nothing specifically against it, just seems... overkill
10 months ago
So, instead of using something lightweight and embeddable like QuickJS, they opted for Deno? Nothing specifically against it, just seems... overkill
See this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359626
There are other embeddable JS engines out there.
Hmm, like bun? Are there many others?
And you're welcome to implement them and submit them as a PR.
The yt-dlp contributors are not in the business of writing or finding JS runtimes, they're trying to download videos.