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Re: Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

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I wrote the C++ part of this codebase, would be happy to answer any questions about it here.

Is Emscripten the only game in town for WebAssembly C/C++ toolchains, or are there other contenders?

As far as I know yes for C/C++ this was the only viable toolchain that is publicly available.

Re: Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

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Poor naming choice. Google Perspective has been around for a year or two I believe.

in that case, its actually a good naming choice, as this existed (in a closed source form) for much longer than that.

I'm not knocking the code...I think it's brilliant. I just think you're going to cross wires with Google here. Will perspective mean "filtering troll comments" or will it mean "displaying analytics in web assembly" is an unfortunate set of choices.

Re: Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

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I wrote the C++ part of this codebase, would be happy to answer any questions about it here.

What was the best/worst part about getting it to work in WebAssembly?

Best part was the validation of a design decision of having minimal dependencies. It made the web assembly port almost trivial.

Worst part (which has improved dramatically) was the rough edges in the web assembly toolchains early on.

Re: Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

in that case, its actually a good naming choice, as this existed (in a closed source form) for much longer than that.

I'm not knocking the code...I think it's brilliant. I just think you're going to cross wires with Google here. Will perspective mean "filtering troll comments" or will it mean "displaying analytics in web assembly" is an unfortunate set of choices.

you'd be surprised how many naming collisions we have, I assume most teams that code-name their software hit the same issue when they go to open source

Re: Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

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I love seeing new UX on Web Assembly. Someone needs to port or create a standard layout engine like WPF to build on this. If the tools were there, C# + VS Code + solid layout engine...I'd dump JS + HTML + CSS in a "flash".

There are some attempts on that direction.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/NETAndWebAssemblyIsThisTheFut...

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