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The worker situation would be much better with inline workers (or modules).

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-module-declarations

Unfortunately the JS standards folks have refused so far to make this situation better.

Ex. it should just be `new Worker(module { ... })`.

We haven't refused, it just takes time! There was an update at the meeting two weeks ago [1]. There's a lot of other machinery which needs to be specified and implemented before module declarations will work but it's coming along.

[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1inTcnb4hugyAvKrjFX_X...

It's all about security, see my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480080

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