[Interest] Bringing Qt, C++ To The Web

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 17/01/13 17:31, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com
> <mailto:realnc at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I'm thinking more of ScummVM, DOSBox, Snes9x, etc.  Would you run those
>     on the server?  Sure you can do it.  But running on the client instead
>     has enormous benefits.  Having to download 10MB of JS is a small price
>     to pay.  If that really was such a concern, YouTube wouldn't bee that
>     popular.
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> And here we are finally, back to the thin client vs fat client debate
> :-) It always happens when webapps are involved.

Not when you don't have a server, just dump web-space ;-)

Google had the right idea with NaCL, but since other browsers don't plan 
to support it, we're stuck with JS.  Emscripten can have enormous value 
for this kind of thing.