Exploring Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime

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PocketBase.io

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D2

I work on the D2 project ([0]) and we switched from other Javascript runners (v8go) to Goja. Using a JS runtime with a dependency on cgo means your Go program loses the (huge) benefit of cross-compiling to different architectures, since at build time it gets linked to the architecture-specific libc. If you're interested in some production code with Goja, this is our code for calling RoughJS [1] from Go in order to produce the hand-drawn diagram look: [2] [0] <a href="https://github.com/terrastruct/d2">https://github.com/terrastruct/d2</a>.

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