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Re: Web versions, thoughts


From: Jacob Bachmeyer
Subject: Re: Web versions, thoughts
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:27:19 -0500
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Zany And Crazy wrote:
Porting something to the web is not only rewriting from >scratch in JavaScript

Isn't WebAssembly a way to make C++ code run in the browser? I thought
that's what it was.....

The API available to WebAssembly code is radically different from the API for native code, as I have previously mentioned. A HURD port is theoretically possible, and would be needed for most GNU packages to be meaningfully ported in this way.


-- Jacob




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