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Love it. How is Godot's WebAssembly support? That is an up and coming area it could really shine in.

• mises 8y ago
  Why would WebAssembly be used in a game engine? I'm not sure it's really up-and-coming for a high-performance area on a game engine that's already cross-platform.
  • codesushi42 8y ago
    Why not? Unity already supports WebAssembly. And WASM executes nearly as fast as machine code.
  • Mikeb85 8y ago
    Because you can distribute games without requiring an install. Opening a webpage is still far more convenient than the easiest installation processes.
  • pjmlp 8y ago
    Because WebAssembly + WebGL is the new Flash.
    • mises 8y ago
      I absolutely understand the appeal there. Do you mean support to export to WebAssembly? Or do you mean only do that and use a native runtime?
      • pjmlp 8y ago
        Both.
  • krapp 8y ago
    Now that native runtimes for WASM are starting to arrive, a game engine that used WebAssembly for both native and in-browser exports and supported compiling to WebAssembly through its scripting engine and editor might really be interesting.
• machee 8y ago
  I don't know what limitations there are, but Godot can build for the Web using Emscripten. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/development/compiling/compiling_for_web.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/development/compiling/co...
  • machee 8y ago
    Happened to realize I posted the wrong link. Above is for building Godot. This is about exporting games for the Web. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/workflow/export/exporting_for_web.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/getting_started/workflow...
    • codesushi42 8y ago
      Thanks!
• chrisdirkis 8y ago
  They're looking at targeting WASM+webGL for the editor itself, so I'd say pretty good: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-awarded-50000-mozilla-open-source-support-program https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-awarded-50000-m...