Re: [boost] Introducing the X++ Programming Language

Subject: Re: [boost] Introducing the X++ Programming Language
From: Phil Bouchard (philippeb8_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-17 10:57:53

On 07/17/2017 02:10 AM, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
> On 17/07/2017 15:59, Phil Bouchard wrote:
>> Furthermore, in theory, is should be possible to offer a service which
>> compiles the executables for combinations of major architecture / OS
>> only once, cache these executables on the webserver and executing them
>> in a specialized container on the client's desktop.  Thus, in theory,
>> we would be able to execute real-time engines from within our own
>> browser!
>
> That used to be a thing (https://developer.chrome.com/native-client) but
> was deprecated in favour of WebAssembly (http://webassembly.org/).

Interesting; then all we would need is for G++ to generate WebAssembly code.