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SHOW HN2017

49points
19comments
#815of 2,242 in 2017
Top 37%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.

Idea: 2 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun reason to build it

    From 1 comment
    • "Just for fun" is a great reason. I was unaware of the non-web goals of WebAssembly, Thank you.
      sqeaky on HN

Requests

  • Support for Emscripten-compiled code via a runtime layer

    From 1 comment
    • Probably not without some considerable effort. I touched on this in the README FAQ, but basically to use Emscripten-compiled code with this, a runtime layer will need to be…
      kodablah on HN

Questions

  • Why does this exist and what is the practical use

    From 1 comment
    • I see what it is and I think I understand what it does, at least as far as the high level description goes. I am re-working some C++ code to work when built with emscripten as…
      sqeaky on HN

Alternatives named

  • TeaVM

    From 1 comment
    • TeaVM [1] does this, but I don't know much about it. [1] https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
      niftich on HN
  • wava (WebAssembly to Java source)

    From 1 comment
    • Hey, I wrote one of those too :P I went the route of compiling to java source code rather than bytecode though. I'll definitely give this a look through when I get some free…
      wrmsr on HN

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