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This is going full inception mode. Nodejs is compiled to wasm (like assembly for your browser), and then loaded inside the browser, which can then run javascript.

So a full JS engine is loaded, completely separate from the built-in one.

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node uses v8. Is the idea that v8 is being compiled to wasm? That seems implausible though it would be amazing if true. Or is there another engine?

My assumption was that the node APIs are simply being exposed to v8.

yeah that's what I gathered: javascript already runs on the browser, then we got node.js because people liked javascript and wanted to run it natively, and then finally we got this which allows us to run node.js on the browser again? it looks to me like we've gone full circle with extra overhead :D but I guess people have reasons to run node.js on the browser and not javascript so idk

I guess the idea is to access some Apis that are not present in the browser, like fs. This was mentioned in a question to StackBlitzs CEO, but he seems to be an AI that just pastes the same text over and over again.

> I guess the idea is to access some Apis that are not present in the browser, like fs.

That's why electron exists. But this can't do that, it's still limited by the APIs that are present in the browser. It's seemingly just full-overhead for... some... reason?

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