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So, instead of using something lightweight and embeddable like QuickJS, they opted for Deno? Nothing specifically against it, just seems... overkill

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There are other embeddable JS engines out there.

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.

Hmm, like bun? Are there many others?