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What's the point ?! It's insane. Who on earth would use that?
by iberator 1y ago
What's the point ?! It's insane. Who on earth would use that?
- afavour 1y agoI don’t think it’s that big a stretch of the imagination to see how this could be used in smaller pieces than the entirety of Linux.
- trollbridge 1y agoYeah. Basically any code you can run on Linux you can now run on a browser with a lot less work.
- lxgr 1y agoRealistically, with quite a bit more work (compared to e.g. v86), but at much higher performance.
- kbelder 1y agoLike Lynx?
- VladVladikoff 1y agoYo dog
- iamnothere 1y agoI can think of a few uses quite easily: - Testing a distro or specific software without downloading it - Educational use (teaching Linux basics on Chromebooks etc) - Bypassing restrictions on installing certain software
- MBCook 1y agoAh, thank you! I think this is really cool but I was struggling to think of a way it could be useful. Your last two suggestions seem especially pertinent.
- MomsAVoxell 1y agoThese questions are the number two most important questions to ask, in software. The sanity/insanity part is not so relevant, but it is necessary to point out that, pretty much a huge percentage of software any of us uses on a daily basis, started off with someone having a random insanity, answering those two questions with a working binary, and thus setting the idea towards becoming normal and thus sane. Soon enough, WASM may just well be the #1 platform upon which to run a Linux on a Desktop ..
- tracker1 1y agoBecause someone can... While I don't see a practical use myself, beyond educational or experimental, that doesn't mean nobody else could, should or would. In the end, it's kinda cool.
- phendrenad2 1y agoTo elicit surprised cries of delight from the HN readers, of course!