On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 06:25:58AM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> After about ten minutes of reading, I'm almost convinced
> we should switch to v8.
> https://developers.google.com/v8/intro
> The api just has to be cleaner than mozilla (he said somewhat on faith),
> and there's an entire public domain dom on top of it in google chrome,
> that we might be able to pilfer.
> I was about to step through the download and build process,
> just so I could play with it, but on a whim I typed in
> 	yum install v8
> and here it comes, packaged with fedora 20.
> Very likely it is available on your distro too.
> So that saves us a few hours work and hassle,
> and makes the path all the more plausible.

Yeah, on debian I think there's a package,
I'll install and play with it over the weekend.
Tbh, having seen the way mozilla's api changes between releases,
making it a maintainability nightmare,
I'm ready to investigate another engine (I'd thought of v8 before but couldn't
find a Debian package for it and didn't want to do the work myself).
I'll also have a look at the api to see if it's worth changing.

Cheers,
Adam.