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Re:Show HN: CheerpX – x86 Node.js/python3/Ruby REPL in brows... by pbronez on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:58AM (#25647544)
> Running this in the browser makes for a ridiculously easy setup. You can get up and running very quickly by just giving someone a URL (probably with a pre-unpacked image)... I'm not sure of where I'd use it outside of teaching... but it's quite impressive.

Teaching seems like a great use case. Maybe they'll use similar licensing as their Cheerp compiler [0] and provide a basic community tier. You could give students a foolproof (?) way to run a controlled set of applications locally without the confusion of setting up a local VM host or the expense of hosting virtual machines for the class. That assumes your students have decent computers.

Actually, this would be a nice way to sideload real applications onto Chromebooks. Certainly more secure/accessible/maintainable than unlocking all the default protections and side-loading Linux first.

[0] https://leaningtech.com/pages/cheerp.html

Re:Show HN: CheerpX – x86 Node.js/python3/Ruby REPL in brows... by lights0123 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:06PM (#25653967)
The company has already donated their technology and time to emulating educational Java apps under WASM, which is helpful for school districts that are Chromebook-only.