Re: WebAssembly

[Gregory Casamento]

Andreas,

I, briefly, worked at a company named Apportable.   This is something they were working on near the end of my tenure there.   Unfortunately, I was not involved in that effort.  The idea was to be able to port any iOS app to the web.   It is definitely possible and I would love to see GNUstep apps able to run like this.

GC

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:51 AM Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:

Hello Johannes,

> as you probably know there now is WebAssembly[1], which has got a libc[2] by now and even a port of SDL2 and cocos2d[3].
>
> Yes, it seems to be somewhat limited as there is no full (?) implementation of threads, networking seems to be reduced to the usage of websockets, and probably some more issues…
>
> But, what do you think, would there be some interest to bring ObjC/GNUstep into the web browser?

This would be ultimate to bring GNUstep apps (at least a GNUstep thin client to GNUstep apps running on a server) to every common platform (OS). I would love to see that happening. Has anybody already given that a try?

Regards,

 Andreas

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