[fpc-pascal] WebAssembly Target

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
>> In fact, there is an alternate approach, transpiling pascal to Javascript.
>>
>> It's much farther ahead than the webassembly target, already produces
>> programs running in the browser and the first web-based components are
>> already being developed using this approach.
>
> I believe these will be complimentary solutions in the end, one will be
> better for certain things than the other, with a lot of overlap, of
> course. I think the transpiler might be better for developing unique
> front-end solutions in Pascal for the web, the WebAssembly compiler might
> be better to bring existing large chunks of code to run on the web, with
> minimal modifications, and for performance critical things.

Fully agreed, and the "unique front-end solutions in Pascal for the web" is
the intended target.

Michael.