kasperisager

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by kasperisager 1y ago
There's no way to not bring along the entire Node.js standard library when you're using Node.js. It also doesn't provide a way to fully abstract over the underlying JavaScript engine, which Bare needs to be able to support
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by kasperisager 1y ago
Bare supports both QuickJS ( https://github.com/holepunchto/libqjs ) and JerryScript ( https://github.com/holepunchto/libjerry ), yes, allowing it to run on much more constrained devices than what Nod
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by kasperisager 1y ago
Bare runs on iOS, yes. The tricky part with iOS in particular is loading of native addons. Bare solves this through https://github.com/holepunchto/bare-link which is capable of generating XCFrameworks on-demand that ca
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by kasperisager 1y ago
The point of Bare isn't to do what Node.js already does. If that had been the case we'd just have continued using Node.js. The point of Bare is that on its own it can't really do anything. To do actually useful stuff, you hav
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by kasperisager 1y ago
This is the thing I'm working on, happy to answer questions! It's always an honor getting roasted on Hacker News.
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by kasperisager 1y ago
npm allows for simple distribution of the prebuilt binaries, but is by no means a requirement and neither is Node.js. It's just a convenient way to ship things; npm is an excellent package manager!
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by kasperisager 1y ago
Bare supports both iOS and Android, yes. Bare Kit provides some convenient abstractions for integrating Bare with native application frameworks like Swift UI and the Android service architecture, but plain Bare runs just fine on iOS and And