[PD] Present and future of WebPd

[Chris McCormick]

Hi,

On 09/09/15 17:41, s p wrote:
> Plugins are a bit 2000 ;) flash and java and friends .... they
> are going to disappear sooner or later

Also Javascript:

https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/#buried-lede

At least, JS will probably become relatively less popular as the 
language for web browsers in the next 5 years in that you will get C 
compilers (and Java compilers!) targeting .wasm binary. When they get 
wasm VMs as efficient as the JVM then things are going to get very 
interesting.

Also LISPs, which everybody knows are about to take over at *any moment* 
between Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their 
Computation by Machine in 1960 and now. Any moment now, I tell you!

[At this point it's interesting to ask why they didn't just integrate 
the JVM more tightly/correctly/seamlessly with browsers from about 2001, 
and, well, *facepalm*.]

Post-wasm browsers, compiling libpd (and maybe even Pd + tcl heh) for 
the browser becomes a no-brainer because you just tweak the Makefile to 
ask GCC to target wasm instead of x86 [please apply Hofstadter's law 
here]. "Won't Take Long" (tm) etc.

Cheers,

Chris.

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