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		ronsor on Sept 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Docs in a clean-room browser V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome, is fully open source. Many projects (including node.js) use it.

pas on Sept 20, 2021 [–]

Maybe the parent comment meant that Chrome and Safari don't share the same JS engine. (As Safari uses JavaScriptCore aka. Nitro.)

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