On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Paul Rouget <p...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > Would you be interested in using SpiderNode as this runtime? We used in > Positron to run Electron's Node modules and are now experimenting with > using in Firefox to enable WebExtensions to spawn Node child processes. > Using it would give you the Node APIs implemented on top of libuv, plus > third-party APIs available via NPM. > > I'll let Till answer this. I don't know much about what we want for the > runtime. Our focus is on creating a unified developer experience for Servo embedding. With the core embedding API targeting Rust, we're looking into building a lightweight runtime that seamlessly ties into the Rust ecosystem. In particular, I'm working on a Tokio[1]-based runtime that allows mixing of JS and Rust modules. Irrespective of how that experiment turns out, SpiderNode might be very valuable for us. Clearly the NPM ecosystem contains a wealth of functionality; tapping into that would be great. It might be possible to do this without running the core runtime in a libuv event loop. In general I'm very interested in seeing how our groups could collaborate. For example, we should ensure that Paul's embedding API is strictly more expressive than a more generic API. One way to ensure this would be to collaborate on an adapter layer implementing your API on Paul's. I'd see it as a bug in our API if that's not possible. (Though it doesn't necessarily need to be trivial - this wouldn't be an everyday undertaking after all.) And we should sync up periodically so we don't needlessly duplicate effort - I propose we start that with a meeting at the All Hands. [1] https://medium.com/@carllerche/announcing-tokio-df6bb4ddb34 _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
