Provide access to webworker instance. about squadron HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello @nullrocket,

I'll try and work something out but I'd like to make this cross-platform. I'm not sure this would make sense for Isolates but I'd like to ensure Squadron provides features that work on all platforms.

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Hi,
A few days after I submitted this issue I found I no longer needed it since recent updates to Safari eliminated the original reason for the workaround. Not to say that it wouldn't still be useful to have for other use cases, or if similar issues arise in the future.

The initial issue was a compound one specific to Safari.

1. Safari would not correctly send SharedArrayBuffer over Message Ports, only directly using postMessage on the worker.
2. Safari also wouldnt allow web workers to directly spawn children workers.

This combination of issues required an awkward orchestration of messages directly to the main thread to spawn children and bounce messages through the main thread, because of issue 1 above it couldn't be sent/bounced through Squadron because it needed to post directly to and from the worker, not a message port.

Spawning child workers wass fixed in Safari 16.4 and the other issue of sending SharedArrayBuffer correctly over message ports was fixed sometime in the 16 series releases, I'm not sure exactly which release.

I'm happy to pin support / compatibility for my own work to require Safari 16.4 in order to avoid the workarounds. So perhaps this issue is more of a feature request / nice to have than a need now.

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Thanks for the detailed feedback. I've almost completed implementing this feature so it will ship anyway in the next release. Could prove useful to someone else after all!

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