Alternatives - Swift - running in the browser (WebAssembly)
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:50 pm
Here's Swift that runs in a webbrowser via WebAssembly: https://swiftwasm.org
Swift was a bit disappointing to me when it arrived, but I'm always wanting a programming language to have a more xTalk-like level of human readability. I do think Swift is fairly readable when compared to cryptic symbols for ^blocks and *pointers and such. Now days Swift is available across platforms. And with WebAsm it's available anywhere there's a modern-browser.
WebAssembly may prove to deliver the most flexibility in choice of higher level programing languages,
and (even better?)... polyglot programming!
I'm thinking there is a path to get OpenXION running in-browser via Java bytcode .jar to WebAssembly .wasm
WebAssembly is a pretty great thing to have around. Check out how this macOS 8.x via Basillisk-II emulator
compiled to WebAsm: https://macos8.app runs! On my 7th-gen Core-i7 laptop, that boots to the Desktop in seconds and PhotoShop 3 runs at least at the speed of a Quadra 900.
Swift was a bit disappointing to me when it arrived, but I'm always wanting a programming language to have a more xTalk-like level of human readability. I do think Swift is fairly readable when compared to cryptic symbols for ^blocks and *pointers and such. Now days Swift is available across platforms. And with WebAsm it's available anywhere there's a modern-browser.
WebAssembly may prove to deliver the most flexibility in choice of higher level programing languages,
and (even better?)... polyglot programming!
I'm thinking there is a path to get OpenXION running in-browser via Java bytcode .jar to WebAssembly .wasm
WebAssembly is a pretty great thing to have around. Check out how this macOS 8.x via Basillisk-II emulator
compiled to WebAsm: https://macos8.app runs! On my 7th-gen Core-i7 laptop, that boots to the Desktop in seconds and PhotoShop 3 runs at least at the speed of a Quadra 900.