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		jbreckmckye 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required f... For a long time, yt-dlp worked completely with Python. They implemented a lightweight JavaScript interpreter that could run basic scripts. But as the runtime requirements became more sophisticated it struggled to scale

KingMob 39 days ago [–]

As they put it, it was less of an interpreter, and more like 3 regexes in a trench coat.

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