WebAssembly+WebUSB port of the SANE scanner library

Re:WebAssembly+WebUSB port of the SANE scanner library by jmillikin on Saturday April 29, 2023 @11:52PM (#35759565)

If the standard for Linux scanner drivers was WASM, then companies who publish Linux drivers (such as Epson) would receive perfect forward compatibility for free.

If WASM driver support were to be included in Windows and/or macOS, similar to how macOS and Linux share CUPS, then Linux support would be more widespread because the vendor's driver could be reused as-is.

I think the thought process behind "supporting one unified platform-independent bytecode would easier than compiling a .so that works with all GNU libc versions" is straightforward and self-evident. Do you disagree?

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Re:WebAssembly+WebUSB port of the SANE scanner library by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday April 30, 2023 @09:21AM (#35762290)

> I think the thought process behind "supporting one unified platform-independent bytecode would be easier than compiling a .so that works with all GNU libc versions" is straightforward and self-evident. Do you disagree?

1. it doesn't really matter what I think

2. Compiling a .so that works with all glibc versions is almost certainly an order of magnitude easier than providing a unified wasm implementation that works on (at least) 3 platforms.

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