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I'm posting again as a reply, since it's kind of separate from my parent comment.

What kind of environment does the code execute in? What standard javascript functions/libraries do we have access to?

The browser version runs in a WebWorker (each team gets one). I didn't even know what WebWorkers were before I programmed this. The server side runs in a NodeJS process (each team gets its own), and your code runs in a fresh VM context. These both provide commonly expected JS such as Math and Date, but not other stuff such as console (which I provide in the webworker case and send messages back to the browser).

Any plans to release the nodejs code? Coding in the browser is ok, but it'd be much nicer to be able to code in my usual editor and test locally using the nodejs version.

You should submit this to the Mozilla dev derby (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/devderby). This month's theme is Web workers.

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