JavaScript is the most misunderstood language out there. It looks and feels like it’s supposed to be slow as shit but it the very opposite: it’s actually one of the most throughly optimised languages out there, in face of the dynamism. I will forever be grateful for my line of work having had me study JS engines. It is really where the magic of computer science is in full display, and I have insane respect for the people who managed to pull this off. Here be dragons.

@benjojo so I assume you’ve seen the boxes on aliexpress that do USB/HDMI/other stuff over fiber? There’s apparently a whole market for weird signals over optics! (and given price I am almost certain they are up to the very same shenanigans you are up to, using Ethernet optics to pull it off cheaply)