Re: Web versions

[Jean Louis]

* Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> [2021-03-17 05:16]:
> Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >        2.  Browsers do not offer POSIX API to JS/WebAssembly for very
> > good    reasons.
> > 
> > The other issue is that it wouldn't really be an operating system, if
> > it runs in a web browser.  Which kinda is the whol point of the GNU
> > project. :-)
> 
> The GNU project also provides some application software.  Octave or Emacs,
> to name two examples, could usefully be offered as "run this in your
> browser" in addition to the regular native ports, but general lower
> performance and Web security policies are likely to make browser ports of
> packages like R and libGMP useful only as demonstrations.

Webassembly's performance is according to the reference about 10% less
than native.
code. https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jangda

In the sense I don't think that argument "lower performance" stands
there.

I would like to have Emacs in Webassembly. Somebody is already working
in that direction with Emacs fork: https://github.com/emacs-ng/emacs-ng

Regarding "web security policies, I would not know what it means.

If there is Emacs in Webassembly, it gives me freedom to operate my
business remotely. Security is provided by SSL and username/password
related to the database that I would access.

Jean