Re: Web versions, thoughts

Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:27:19 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.org.gnu.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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