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Why not just run emacs through emscripten?

• kiba 14y ago
  Can you explain why it accomplish the same goal as emacsy?
  • zackzackzack 14y ago
    It wouldn't. It was more of a realization that I had while I was reading through the kickstarter.
    • Arelius 14y ago
      Because, it's not as simple as that. A huge amount of the C code is interfacing with platform libs, emscripten doesn't just fix that.
      • zackzackzack 14y ago
        Fuck, I hate to "actually..." you, but emscripten actually does do a tremendous amount of work with platform libs. Examples: http://syntensity.blogspot.com/2011/05/emscripten-12-doom-on-web.html http://syntensity.blogspot.com/2011/05/emscripten-12-doom-on... https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/331 https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/issues/331 https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Filesystem-Guide https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Filesystem-Guide Why I know this: I spent a fair portion of winter break trying to port the R-project into Javascript. It went nowhere (damn fortan), but I learned a ton about emscripten and compiling.
        • Arelius 14y ago
          I suspect however, that it doesn't support X11 and many of the other required libraries that are required by Emacs. Also, don't feel bad about "actually..." ing me, I'd prefer to know the truth, than to think a falsehood.
          • Arelius 14y ago
            The links you reference are mosly for OpenGL, SDL, and File I/O, which is a small part of what Emacs actually needs.