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0 pointszfg1y ago0 comments

How else am I supposed to use a Visual Basic 6 clone written in C# in my browser?

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

WebAssembly brings all languages to the browser and that's a good thing.

I can write applications for the desktop in any language, I should be able to do the same thing in the browser.

WebAssembly makes that possible.

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pjmlp1y ago

Back in the day you would have used .NET plugin for browsers, which got replaced by Silverlight plugin, nowadays it is WebAssembly, really nothing new per se.

zfgOP1y ago

Except that it's implemented in all browsers with nothing extra to install.

All third party browser plugins failed eventually.

pjmlp1y ago

And now we have all plugins back, that is the only utility for WebAssembly, doing two level translation of bytecodes.

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aqueueaqueue1y ago

Minified JS also makes that possible.

zfgOP1y ago

WebAssembly does it better.

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0 pointszfg1y ago0 comments

How else am I supposed to use a Visual Basic 6 clone written in C# in my browser?

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

WebAssembly brings all languages to the browser and that's a good thing.

I can write applications for the desktop in any language, I should be able to do the same thing in the browser.

WebAssembly makes that possible.

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pjmlp1y ago

Back in the day you would have used .NET plugin for browsers, which got replaced by Silverlight plugin, nowadays it is WebAssembly, really nothing new per se.

zfgOP1y ago

Except that it's implemented in all browsers with nothing extra to install.

All third party browser plugins failed eventually.

pjmlp1y ago

And now we have all plugins back, that is the only utility for WebAssembly, doing two level translation of bytecodes.

1 more reply

aqueueaqueue1y ago

Minified JS also makes that possible.

zfgOP1y ago

WebAssembly does it better.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse