Is Node Box Open Source or Open Source?

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Web containers is built on it's using this thing called shared array buffer which is a new thing in the browser that allows you to allow multiple processes to access the same memory way over my pay grade yeah. The node box one is using a different set of APIs and it takes they say it takes a little bit more memory but it works in all the browsers currently so if you want to use especially if you wants to use code sandbox on an iPad when you're coding from the beach you can runTechnically you can run a node process in the browser although you can't you have to still have Wi-Fi because it has to talk to their servers so that's one thing I was like oh

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about two new services that allow you to run Node in the browser, WebContainers + NodeBox. Why Node in the browser? How does it work? And what are the differences and limitations of the services?

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