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What would have been more interesting is compiling basillisk2 or minivmac to WASM and seeing how well it performs compared to native (I think this may have alre
by tomxor 6y ago
What would have been more interesting is compiling basillisk2 or minivmac to WASM and seeing how well it performs compared to native (I think this may have already been done with the later). That might actually result a good convenience performance trade-off allowing for some interesting use cases: e.g popping a quadra emulator with a specific disk image into an arbitrary web page as an interactive figure in an article commenting on some part of personal computing history.
But transpiling it to JS and then wrapping in electron... just seems like some weird masochistic exercise in how to make things worse for no benefit.
then again:
> Should this have been a native app? Absolutely.
Maybe the author was fully aware of that, but this makes me wonder what their motivations were.
- selfhoster11 6y ago> Maybe the author was fully aware of that, but this makes me wonder what their motivations were. Shits and giggles, possibly. There's something deliciously ironic and outright hilarious when totally mismatched platforms from different time periods are mashed together like this, and it still works somehow.