On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 14:47, Dan McDonald <dan...@edgecast.io> wrote: > > So, there's no plan in future for bringing in chromium related technologies > > i.e., google's v8 engine / node / electron? I suppose the port on x86 for > > illumos should be straightforward compared to SPARC. How about an x86 only > > port? Is that on the agenda? > > V8 is a pain-in-the-ass, and they assume all the world is Linux, especially > in their pointer-remap space.
To be clear, though: Node (and v8) do work on illumos systems, and as a community we're pretty committed to continued support for a variety of language runtimes. The broader Chromium/Electron situation is a separate set of issues, and is likely to be more difficult. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
