Re: webassembly

[Andrea Zagli <azagli libero it>]

Il giorno lun 20 nov 2017 19:23:08 CET, Emmanuele Bassi ha scritto:

> 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.


unfortunately my knowledge of glib/gtk structure/architecture is close to zero

same thing for webassembly and what it means port to it a library of  
the level of glib/gtk


PS: an other use case could be use latest version of glib/gtk/etc  
"under" winxp (but maybe the browser version that support webassembly  
doesn't suport anymore winxp)