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by threeseed 2620 days ago
That last one is really stupid.

The reason they weren't ported is because they were legacy codebases with some code going back to the original versions including lots of assembler. It was always going to be a monumental task to rebuild them from scratch.
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chubot 2620 days ago
That you don't have to rebuild such apps from scratch on WASM is exactly the point.

You can compile legacy codebases in C and C++ to WASM. It was designed for that. Doing that on the JVM requires "research-level" techniques because the bytecode has a completely different design.

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