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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by noobermin on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:25PM (#17088467)
You're aware that most operating systems have a C API, right? Give me a place C doesn't run where js does.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by jakelazaroff on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:22AM (#17088939)
In a browser. Yes, there's wasm, but it has a lot of limitations that don't apply to JavaScript. fineline had a good comment about it upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088315
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by sigstoat on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:28PM (#17093372)
https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by pjmlp on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:41AM (#17089955)
Try to use the C API on Android, ChromeOS, Windows Phone, Mbed.
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