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

[Brian G]

I thought that gambas fast actually full converted to c then is compiled and executed
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Brian G Thursday, 04 August 2022, 05:08PM -07:00 from Yves Cloutier  yves.cloutier at gmail.com :

>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.
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>>Brian G Thursday, 04 August 2022, 00:08PM -07:00 from Rolf-Werner Eilert  rwe-sse at osnanet.de :
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>>>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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>>>>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?
>>>Regards 
>>>Rolf
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