Re: WebAssembly target for Guix (Showcase)

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zamfofex <zamfofex@twdb.moe> writes:

> Hello, Guix! I have recently worked on a WebAssembly target (for
> cross‐compilation) for Guix. It’s still in very early stages and thus
> fairly lacking, but it is enough to cross‐compile certain simple
> packages such as ‘lolcat’.
>
> Maybe people might find it useful and/or interesting in some way. I
> have shared it here: https://git.sr.ht/~zamfofex/guix-wasm
>
> The WebAssembly changes are applied on top of
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63088 (“Add Lc0”) because I had in my
> local Guix clone, and I didn’t bother to rebase.
>
> I’d love to know what y’all might think about it!

Hosting services on WASM would increase security by a lot, so I'm very
excited that someone is working on this.
Also cross-compiling GUIs with Guix would be a nice way to support
developing for browsers.  Qt for instance experimentally supports
compiling for WASM.