Hi,
The new version of RStudio [1] now bundles quarto [2], a publishing system written in JavaScript and TypeScript that in turn bundles Deno [3] (runtime written in Rust) and its standard library (this is not binary, but it's tagged independently of Deno at the moment), deno_dom, and Dart Sass (other binary dependencies are pandoc and esbuild, but they are part of Fedora already).
I'm a bit overwhelmed by this. Does anyone see any sane way forward here? Anyone willing to help? Some thoughts:
- We could package Deno, but how stable it is, and thus how important the tie to a specific version might be. Also, there's the question about how to handle its standard library and third-party modules. Maybe we could follow the same strategy as with nodejs, allowing bundling specific versions.
- Dart Saas seems quite complicated, because it obviously requires the Dart SDK [5]. Could Dart Saas be replaced by Ruby Saas?
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rstudio [2] https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli [3] https://deno.land [4] https://github.com/sass/dart-sass [5] https://dart.dev/get-dart