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Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

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Post by mkaymalright » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 4:10 PM UTC

cercatrova wrote: post #100

mkaymalright wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look cool, but I was envisioning a more general approach I suppose, not limited to a single specific language/tool. Flutter still outputs a x.js which is interpreted by V8 and runs within the Chrome sandbox, what I meant was more along the line of a supercharged browser able to run e.g. the JRE allowing to run any random java program out there, but then accessed over an URL and requiring no manual "installation"/copy…

Looks like you're looking for WASM apps then. Native programs including games if they're compiled to WASM can run on the browser.

Ok WASM looks pretty epic. Google Earth browser version works pretty well and this QT example feels pretty native qt.io/web-assembly-example-slate

Any idea of how popular WASM is? I don't feel like I've ever interacted with any WASM app in the wild which seems pretty sad given the possibilities and how bloated websites in general are.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

#102

Post by krapp » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 6:33 PM UTC

benologist wrote: post #7

Open source Pokemon, where new creatures can be contributed by anyone and anyone can add stories and adventures or fork the whole thing and do whatever they want.

It would need to be curated, though, the way levels in Mario Maker are. Otherwise you'd just end up with people posting porn and ads or troll creatures designed to ruin everyone's fun.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

#103

Post by cercatrova » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

mkaymalright wrote: post #101

cercatrova wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like you're looking for WASM apps then. Native programs including games if they're compiled to WASM can run on the browser.

Ok WASM looks pretty epic. Google Earth browser version works pretty well and this QT example feels pretty native qt.io/web-assembly-example-slate Any idea of how popular WASM is? I don't feel like I've ever interacted with any WASM app in the wild which seems pretty sad given the possibilities and how bloated websites in general are.

Still in development, basically. It's not used for full GUI apps necessarily, more like to run computations in the background that are then sent back to the HTML/CSS/JS based GUI.

Re: Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?

#104

Post by mkaymalright » Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

cercatrova wrote: post #103

mkaymalright wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok WASM looks pretty epic. Google Earth browser version works pretty well and this QT example feels pretty native qt.io/web-assembly-example-slate Any idea of how popular WASM is? I don't feel like I've ever interacted with any WASM app in the wild which seems pretty sad given the possibilities and how bloated websites in general are.

Still in development, basically. It's not used for full GUI apps necessarily, more like to run computations in the background that are then sent back to the HTML/CSS/JS based GUI.

I see. But theoretically say I want to make a web-accessible GUI I could just make it using my favorite native GUI library which supports compiling to WASM and it _should_ work from there cross platform + mobile, right? Thanks for the chat :-)