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by make3 879 days ago
We've seen a lot of ppl write electron apps because they're portable. I see this as electron/jvm for code that already exists in non vm languages, so that in theory you don't need to do nearly as much rewriting, or any at all. that's pretty cool.
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Yes, that's the idea. In theory.. :)
I recently made a command line assembler tool written in C in the early 90's run in a VSCode extension via WASI just by compiling with the WASI SDK, IMHO that's pretty cool:

https://floooh.github.io/2023/12/31/vscode-wasm-wasi.html

(same with my home computer emulators, but those were written right from the start with the web as "just another platform" in mind: https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/)