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Windows 10 Calculator is now running on WebAssembly, natively on iOS and Android

40 points by vitorgrs 7y ago

djsumdog 7y ago
Did they remove the telemetry?
the_trapper 7y ago
This is pretty incredible work. I'm curious to hear how well Platform Uno works in practice with real world projects. The demos are quite impressive. I always thought that UWP was a much nicer platform to develop for than Android. It's a shame that Microsoft's mismanagement pretty much killed Windows Mobile as a viable platform.
thenewsemi 7y ago
Why does a calculator needs Network Permission? (atleast on the Android version)
- X-Cubed 7y ago
  It's capable of currency conversion and pulls the latest rates from a web API.
cr3ative 7y ago
So looking at https://calculator.platform.uno/ https://calculator.platform.uno/ - 84 HTTP requests - 10.2 MB transferred - 51.9 MB in decompressed assets - 23.44 seconds to start the application. For a calculator, these are pretty extreme numbers.
- jeromelaban-nv 7y ago
  dev here - this app is based on mono-wasm, which uses the very young support for AOT compilation from .NET IL to WebAssembly. There are limitations in WebAssembly (namely the lack of support for exceptions) that force the mono codegen to add a lot of weight to respect the .NET semantics. The rest is what it is because mono-wasm still is in the "make it work" phase. 23s, especially if it is the second run where the wasm is cached, to start the application is very high though. It should be below 4s (which is still high) on a desktop class machine. Was that on an Android phone by any chance ?
  - cr3ative 7y ago
    Chrome, OSX, Macbook Pro (2018). I retried today and it took 30 seconds, looking at the Network tab.
panpanna 7y ago
This is like the opposite of KISS.
dingo_bat 7y ago
I must say windows new app design is truly amazing, just based on how good it looks.
desi_ninja 7y ago
I think it is pretty impressive and I want to know more about porting UWP apps to WebAssembly.
garganzol 7y ago
If only it could load a bit faster. To mask that time, you can use the load progress screen.

40 points by vitorgrs 7y ago

Did they remove the telemetry?

This is pretty incredible work. I'm curious to hear how well Platform Uno works in practice with real world projects. The demos are quite impressive. I always thought that UWP was a much nicer platform to develop for than Android. It's a shame that Microsoft's mismanagement pretty much killed Windows Mobile as a viable platform.

thenewsemi 7y ago

Why does a calculator needs Network Permission? (atleast on the Android version)

X-Cubed 7y ago
It's capable of currency conversion and pulls the latest rates from a web API.

cr3ative 7y ago

So looking at https://calculator.platform.uno/ https://calculator.platform.uno/ - 84 HTTP requests - 10.2 MB transferred - 51.9 MB in decompressed assets - 23.44 seconds to start the application. For a calculator, these are pretty extreme numbers.

jeromelaban-nv 7y ago
dev here - this app is based on mono-wasm, which uses the very young support for AOT compilation from .NET IL to WebAssembly. There are limitations in WebAssembly (namely the lack of support for exceptions) that force the mono codegen to add a lot of weight to respect the .NET semantics. The rest is what it is because mono-wasm still is in the "make it work" phase. 23s, especially if it is the second run where the wasm is cached, to start the application is very high though. It should be below 4s (which is still high) on a desktop class machine. Was that on an Android phone by any chance ?
- cr3ative 7y ago
  Chrome, OSX, Macbook Pro (2018). I retried today and it took 30 seconds, looking at the Network tab.

panpanna 7y ago

This is like the opposite of KISS.

dingo_bat 7y ago

I must say windows new app design is truly amazing, just based on how good it looks.

desi_ninja 7y ago

I think it is pretty impressive and I want to know more about porting UWP apps to WebAssembly.

garganzol 7y ago

If only it could load a bit faster. To mask that time, you can use the load progress screen.