Re:Show HN: Run Python, Ruby, Node.js, C++, Lua in the Brows...
by tyingq on Monday November 22, 2021 @11:48AM
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That's via emscripten. I suspect by "directly" they meant something like Python bytecode -> WASM. Which I think might be possible later, when some of the proposals[1] like GC, exceptions, etc, are done. That sort of fuzzy line where WASM is somewhat like ASM, and somewhat like a language VM.
[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals