Re:Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?
by cercatrova on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:05AM
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Looks like you're looking for WASM apps then. Native programs including games if they're compiled to WASM can run on the browser.
Re:Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?
by mkaymalright on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:10PM
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Ok WASM looks pretty epic. Google Earth browser version works pretty well and this QT example feels pretty native qt.io/web-assembly-example-slate
Any idea of how popular WASM is? I don't feel like I've ever interacted with any WASM app in the wild which seems pretty sad given the possibilities and how bloated websites in general are.
Re:Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?
by cercatrova on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:45PM
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Still in development, basically. It's not used for full GUI apps necessarily, more like to run computations in the background that are then sent back to the HTML/CSS/JS based GUI.
Re:Ask HN: Impossible Ideas?
by mkaymalright on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:45PM
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I see. But theoretically say I want to make a web-accessible GUI I could just make it using my favorite native GUI library which supports compiling to WASM and it _should_ work from there cross platform + mobile, right? Thanks for the chat :-)
So I guess just hassle-free native apps with a focus on client/server architecture like websites, running gimp/paint doesn't seem like a good fit for something like this :')