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		deterministic on June 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Choose Boring Technology (2015) V8 (and other Javascript JIT compilers) are written in C++. Whenever you think you run Javascript code, what you are actually running is C++ code that will emulate and compile your Javascript into machine code, update the DOM with C++ code, access sockets using C/C++ code etc. all running on an OS written in C/C++. Your code is a very small percentage of the code that runs "your" application. C/C++ runs the world. Including Javascript, Python, Java etc.

speedgoose on June 8, 2020 [–]

I do trust the C++ of V8 and NodeJS because it's used by many and well tested in the field.

I do not trust a random npm package with C++. C++ is way too level and insecure and it's not worth it.

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