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That’s pretty cool! But v8 alone kind of sucks unless you specifically want isolation. Sometimes you just want to make a network request, you know?

That makes total sense in many applications, including games.

The idea was to have TCP sockets and Websockets to enable that.

Basically, have the same APIs you're familiar with in a Browser, but in a much smaller package that you can ship independently of the Browser.

(this is very similar to Electron)

> Sometimes you just want to make a network request

In a drawing tool / library?

That's just asking for trouble. By spec, SVG allows for XXE shenanigans. I'd rather not worry that any image file I process might exfiltrate my data.