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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
by 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 agoThat'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 agoThe "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