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		silverwind on May 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Temporary fork enables Node.js to optionally use t... 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.

rlidwka on May 12, 2015 [–]

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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