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Also considering using JS as the lingua franca but perf is likely unacceptable given non-JITted JavaScriptCore. (cf github.com/Khan/JSContext)

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a headless WKWebView + WKScriptMessageHandler wouldn’t work? Wonder how bad the IPC overhead is tho

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Call JavaScript function from native code in WKWebView

Using a WKWebView in iOS 8, how can I run a JavaScript function from the native side or otherwise communicate from the native side to JavaScript? There doesn't appear to be a method akin to UIWebVi...

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Might work, and then we could share with the web client. But the interfaces would be much worse than e.g. C++. :/

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