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Look at you, pretending asm.js and emscripten don't exist.

• PommeDeTerre 13y ago
  Asm.js is just a mangled subset of JavaScript. Every Emscripten demo I've seen so far has either not worked, or been horribly slow. As far as I'm concerned, it really isn't a viable option at this point for anything remotely serious. It may be an interesting experimental idea, but it still needs a massive amount of work before it's seriously usable. In the end, they're merely an abuse of JavaScript, rather than providing proper support like NDK provides for C and C++ under Android, for instance.
  • aclevernickname 13y ago
    That's right, move them goalposts [1]. Thanks for the reply, always a fan of your comments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
    • PommeDeTerre 13y ago
      The "goalposts" haven't "moved". Asm.js is still just JavaScript. Emscripten isn't currently production-grade software, and it still just compiles down to JavaScript. I hope you understand that either of those options is still a case of using JavaScript. Are you seriously disputing that? We can develop production-grade applications using Java, C, C++, C# and JavaScript for Android. We can only do a very small fraction of that when using Firefox OS. Firefox OS clearly provides far fewer viable options than Android does.
      • aclevernickname 13y ago
        >The "goalposts" haven't "moved". >Emscripten isn't currently production-grade software, and it still just compiles down to JavaScript. took you two sentences to contradict yourself and move the goalposts again. Nowhere were we talking about "production grade". > I hope you understand that either of those options is still a case of using JavaScript. Are you seriously disputing that? That's a strawman fallacy. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man