Re: Anyone wants to take on WebAssembly?

Just wanted to say that Pd can already be compiled for WASM with
emscripten: https://mathr.co.uk/empd/

Maybe that can serve as a starting point?

Christof

On 27.10.2020 21:34, [email protected] wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> I know main devs were not particularly keen on spending time on an
> scsynth wasm target when I asked last time, but perhaps there are other
> people out there who would be interested in exploring that avenue?
>
> My personal interest got renewed after coming back to Scala.js for my
> client, and seeing that the JS back-end compiler these days is rock
> solid. I think it would be fantastic to make sound installations or
> sketches work in the client-side browser. I even hacked up a WebAudio
> UGen for my FScape non-realtime DSP system to test the thing -- see
> https://www.sciss.de/temp/soundprocesses.js/ -- but of course this was
> never designed for this scenario, so first of all, that's all JavaScript
> not Assembly, and it has a rather complicated streaming framework behind
> (Akka Stream) instead of the relatively simple scsynth graph processing;
> so no wonder it is not very efficient in CPU terms.
>
> I believe the sweet spot is to run the client through JS (that could be
> ScalaCollider/SoundProcesses, supercollider.js, or other languages that
> probably can run in the browser, like Python) and the server through
> wasm. Csound people tell me wasm support was quite a good addition.
>
> Now, as I've stated repeatedly, my C skills are very small, same for
> LLVM and emscripten, and I don't know how entangled the build targets
> for scsynth vs sclang are. But if anyone sees this as an opportunity to
> experiment, I'm happy to try to learn the necessary stuff to start
> building a branch of scsynth against wasm (if it's doable at all -- but
> why not?).
>
> Feel free to reply to the thread or ping me directly.
>
> Best, .h.h.
>
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