[Gambas-user] Does anyone have any thoughts on webassembly

[Yves Cloutier]

I'm not an expert on the subject but i think you would need the gambas vm
or runtime to be compiled to web assembly. Like pyscript for example an
entire python runtime is loaded in the browser i believe.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 18:43 Brian G <brian at westwoodsvcs.com> wrote:

> Webassembly is a virtual machine inside the web browser that is now
> supported by most browsers. It allows a c program to be compiles to web
> assembly
> Then run on the web assembly virtual machine.
>
> Most compilers now have a webassembly translator or compile directly to
> web assembly.
> Since when a gambas module is fast it is translated to c code and then
> compiles to native machine code. Perhaps it would be possible compile to
> web assembly which could be directly sent to the client browser for
> execution.
>
> It would mean I think that all gambas modules would have to be compiled to
> web assembly library format.
>
> web assembly links all required code and libraries to a single app binary
> I think and then sends it to the browser and runs in in a sandboxed virtual
> machine.
>
> Not sure what else. But it would be quite useful. To write to the app and
> it just runs on the clients machine in the browser.
>
> --
> Thanks
> Brian G
> Thursday, 04 August 2022, 00:08PM -07:00 from Rolf-Werner Eilert
> rwe-sse at osnanet.de:
>
>
> Am 04.08.22 um 18:57 schrieb Brian G:
>
> Has anyone tried or have any thoughts on having gambas fast unsafe produce
> webassembly on the back end for running inside browsers.
> I understand there is a c to webassembly compiler available.
> Not sure what would be involved.
> Any thoughts?
>
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> Thanks
> Brian G
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> I just read an article about PyScript and/or Pyodide and thought this
> might be interesting for Gambas, too. Do you mean something like that?
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> Regards
>
> Rolf
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