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		treflop on June 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Secu... It’s been several years since I’ve tried but most JS engines are out of date and barely maintained and the ones used for browsers are made for browsers first and they are not built for you to integrate at all. Lua is specifically built for you to integrate so there are many resources and a huge community backing you.

bluelightning2k on June 30, 2024 [–]

That's helpful. Thanks for the response.

I think a useful caveat on that would be "...when these projects started". Roblox started in 2003 and Factorio in 2012.

As of today embedding v8 doesn't seem that hard (https://v8.dev/docs/embed)

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