v8worker
Minimal golang binding to V8. This exposes a non-blocking message passing
interface to the V8 javascript engine. Go and JavaScript interact by sending
and receiving messages. V8 will block a thread (goroutine) only while it
computes javascript - it has no "syscalls" other than sending and receiving
messages to Go. There are only three built in functions exposed to javascript:
$print(string), $send(msg), and $recv(callback).
MIT License. Contributions welcome.
Build
Run make to trigger a build of V8 and then do make install
which will trigger go install. V8 is statically linked. It's only been tested
on my OSX laptop so far - should be easily portable to linux tho.
make test to build/run tests. Or just go test.
Docs
From golang checkout the API here: https://godoc.org/github.com/ry/v8worker
From Javascript you only have:
$print(string)
$send(msg)
$recv(callback).
See worker_test.go for example usage for now.
TODO
- more tests
- need ability to pass command line options to V8 when creating a worker (maybe before)
- way to kill worker
- get text of exception