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Re:Protecting your Firefox OS App code by fidotron on Thursday December 05, 2013 @02:12PM (#6856444)
The Emscripten recommendation is hilarious. How long before people are writing JS and bundling it with a JS interpreter which is compiled with Emscripten merely as an obfuscation measure to satisfy a very confused manager?

For a group supposedly keen on JS that's a really stupid recommendation.

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Re:Protecting your Firefox OS App code by digitarald on Thursday December 05, 2013 @05:46PM (#6857956)
It is true that the way from JS to C to JS is an awkward recommendation. The common use case for Emscripten is the cross compilation when you already have native libraries that you want to share with your web app; which makes the web just another build target. And I concluded in the article that the obfuscation is really just a benefitial side effect.
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