Re: webassembly

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 20 November 2017 at 17:34, Andrea Zagli <azagli libero it> wrote:
> Il giorno lun 20 nov 2017 16:02:11 CET, Emmanuele Bassi ha scritto:
>
> > Hi;
> >
> > On 20 November 2017 at 14:52, Andrea Zagli via gtk-devel-list
> > <gtk-devel-list gnome org> wrote:
> > > do you plan to port (i don't know if "port" is the right word) glib/gtk
> > > to
> > > webassembly?
> >
> >
> > There are no plans that I'm aware of, nor use cases that have
> > materialised that would require such a port.
>
>
>
> for example it could replace broadway

Considering that the Broadway backend is mostly a toy, and it hasn't
seen much development at all in master, I'm not sure replacing it is
going to work.

Writing new GDK backends, and ensuring that they keep working, is not
a trivial matter.

> since i hate other languages than c, i wrote a little library with glib to
> easy develop cgi; and i use other libraries (libgda, libsoup, libxml, etc
> etc) to make my web apps
>
> the base code for that web apps is always a library that i use also for the
> gui backend of the web app
>
> with webassembly i could write backend and frontend in glib/gtk

If you are volunteering to write a new GDK backend, and maintain it,
then by all means: feel free to work on it and submit your code for
review!

I strongly advise you work on the master branch, as the rendering
model has drastically changed from the gtk-2-24 and gtk-3-22 stable
branches.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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