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Re:Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chak... by silverwind on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @04:37PM (#9534689)
The question is why should node/io.js take such a pull request. It adds support for an irrelevant platform and would add the burden of maintaining the 'wrapper' which will probably break on every v8 update.
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Re:Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use the Chak... by rlidwka on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @06:04PM (#9535283)
If it adds an engine abstraction layer which would allow users to choose an engine (and somebody implements SpiderMonkey support there), sure why not.

Though this is a job that is already done by JXCore.

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