Rewrite in N-API for Electron 30+ compatibility #18
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…by eliminating static references to constructors. Technique outright stolen from `tree-sitter/node-tree-sitter`.
…to something that can actually run on my system without complaining about random number generation.
(On my machine, a call to `pcre2_jit_compile` is causing test failures; not sure where the fault lies there. Commenting out the call fixed it, but is probably not a great idea as a permanent fix.)
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I'm willing to more or less rubber-stamp approve this on the basis it's already been in use on the ElectronNext / Pulsar Next branch of Pulsar for a while, right?
Ideally we would have a subject-matter expert sift through hundreds of C++ files and such, but... I don't see that happening. So I think we will use this and have the proof of the pudding be in the eating, so to speak.
In that sense, Looks Good To Me.
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This is the upgrade to
superstringwe need for PulsarNext.Here's what this does:
superstringso that it usesnode-addon-apiinstead ofnan, gaining context-awareness in the process.Now that we've published our existing
superstringversion (relied on for mainline Pulsar) to NPM as@pulsar-edit/superstringversion2.5.0, we can land this tomasterand bump the major version, publishing it as version3.0.0.