[brundolf]

Maybe one day more things will have been written in modern languages that treat cross-platform builds as a first-class concern (Rust, Go, etc.), and this kind of "boxing" won't be as necessary. Until then, I think your approach is very sensible for getting something fun into as many people's hands as possible :)

[gilgoomesh]

Basilisk is written in C++ (a portable language) and it’s a cross platform project.

This JS boxing is mostly for this type of “hey look, it runs on the web” demo. Slower, but clickbait.