Consider swapping V8 with Sobek (recent fork of Goja)

[nickchomey]

V8 makes for a heavy binary, etc... It would be neat to have a go-native implementation of JS.

Goja seems to be the most popular option for this, but the k6 team at Grafana recently forked Goja into Sobek, where they merged their long-outstanding PR for ES Module support. It also looks like they've been merging all other commits to Goja.

Given these advancements, and the deeper resources available at Grafana, it seems to me that Sobek would be worth testing out for NEX's JS engine.

[jordan-rash]

We are actively experimenting with this now. Will try and update when we have reached a decision on path forward. Agree that V8 is heavy

[gedw99]

adding another one here: https://github.com/honojs/hono

I like how the JS can be reused to run anywhere.

[nickchomey]

This discussion is about js engines. Hono is just a library. As such, anyone is welcome to use Hono today, or with whatever engine they switch to (so long as it has all of the necessary APIs)

[nickchomey]

As it turns out, sobek might not be appropriate (or at least would be difficult to implement). See this discussion I had with the sobek dev about limitations - both technical and license-based.

grafana/sobek#49

[jordan-rash]

Thanks for sharing this @nickchomey