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With WebAssembly just getting started do you guys think that one day we’ll be able to run Elixir in the web browser and use it to do similar tasks that Javascript does today?
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OvermindDL1
It’d be entirely possible to make a backend for the compiler (like HiPE is for example) that compiles to webassembly.
Do note, webassembly is NOT just for running in the browser, it is a standard that defines a base bytecode for sandboxed execution. There are webassembly runners in C, Java, even an FPGA washing machine (yes really), none of which have Javascript or any of Javascript’s calls or libraries. It is just another backend, like x86 or ARM.
dbern
Looks like Dockyard is considering investing in this idea.
peerreynders
There’s no BEAM on any web browser … web assembly or not. So what’s the point?
Sequential programming without the concurrency goodies doesn’t make for a compelling use case.
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blatyo
I don’t know that it’s impossible, but I feel like it wouldn’t be very performant. I don’t think the BEAM is optimized to perform the types of operations that are necessary to run WASM code.