[oi-dev] [developer] Porting Node/Electron to Illumos

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 14:47, Dan McDonald <danmcd at edgecast.io> wrote:
> > So, there's no plan in future for bringing in chromium related technologies i.e., google's v8 engine / node / electron? I suppose the port on x86 for illumos should be straightforward compared to SPARC. How about an x86 only port? Is that on the agenda?
>
> V8 is a pain-in-the-ass, and they assume all the world is Linux, especially in their pointer-remap space.

To be clear, though: Node (and v8) do work on illumos systems, and as
a community we're pretty committed to continued support for a variety
of language runtimes.

The broader Chromium/Electron situation is a separate set of issues,
and is likely to be more difficult.


Cheers.

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Joshua M. Clulow
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