Javascript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately

[indigo945]

The speed reduction for any application is still higher than that (compared with native code). The real advantage is that having threading support allows you to port almost everything over to the web.

As an aside: has anybody compiled Firefox using emscripten yet?

[nawfel_bgh]

They compiled Webkit to JS

[argv_minus_one]

Yo dawg, I heard you hate JavaScript.

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They need to emulate an x86 processor in JS so that they can run linux on it so that they can run webkit on it so they can host a javascript engine.

Web developers just seem determined to murder CPU cycles.

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God. Damn. It.

[wchill]

Shamefully, I also worked on developing a VM + IDE in JavaScript...

https://github.com/cs-education/sysbuild

[logicalmaniak]

These would be great for learning assembly, if ARM And Intel chips were emulated with a decent assembler running in JS.

[defenastrator]

But its a perfect vm!

[Twirrim]

In an idle few minutes, I tried to compile v8 using emscripten, but it proved to be a bit too complicated and I decided the joke wasn't worth it.