Wrong, Flash was in the process of doing exactly that. https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ Before asm2js was even an idea, Unreal compiled to Flash via CrossBridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzyCTt5KLKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZS7B1pLWg To this day, with exception of maybe PlayCanvas, there are hardly any tools that can match the same developer experience for WebGL, almost 15 years later. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Already offered by PNaCL, and CrossBridge, in 2010. https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ Still waiting for those wonderful WebAssembly + WebGL games that can match Infinity Blade for iOS from 2010, the game Apple used to show off iOS GL ES 3.0 capabilities. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Historical note, it was originally done as UE3 to Flash C++ Crossbridge / Stage 3D, the WebGL version came later. https://www.shacknews.com/article/72813/epic-releases-epic-citadel-unreal-engine-demo-in-flash "Unreal Engine 3 Support for Adobe Flash Player - Epic Citadel" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzyCTt5KLKU https://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WSF24A5A75-38D6-4a44-BDC6-927A2B123E90.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

It is basically Flash, but now it is standard, so everyone is happy. https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ https://youtu.be/xzyCTt5KLKU. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

Easy, so many reasons beyond just blaming Apple, - WebGL is a subset of ES 3.0, when the hardware can do GL 3.2 - WebGPU, when it arrives sometime during 2022, it will be a 1.0 MVP of the features from Metal, Vulkan and DX 12, with yet another shading language that looks like a mix of C++/HLSL/Rust, WGSL. - Lack of tooling, to debug WebGL you have basically to debug the browser process and try to track down your... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

In theory you should be able to use TCC to build git currently [1] [2]. If you have a lightweight system or you're building something experimental, it's a lot easier to get TCC up and running over GCC. I note that it supports arm, arm64, i386, riscv64 and x86_64. [1] https://bellard.org/tcc/ [2] https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

> I'm not sure who wants to be able to syntax highlight C at 35 MB per second, but I am now able to do so Fast, but tcc *compiles* C to binary code at 29 MB/s on a really old computer: https://bellard.org/tcc/#speed. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

"Because Pnut can be distributed as a human-readable shell script (`pnut.sh`), it can serve as the basis for a reproducible build system. With a POSIX compliant shell, `pnut.sh` is sufficiently powerful to compile itself and, with some effort, [TCC](https://bellard.org/tcc/). Because TCC can be used to bootstrap GCC, this makes it possible to bootstrap a fully featured build toolchain from only human-readable... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

For what it's worth you can implement a C compiler in under 10kLOC. The chibi C compiler is only a few thousand lines [1]. There is also Cake [2] and the tiny C compiler [3] which are both relatively small. [1] https://github.com/rui314/chibicc [3] https://bellard.org/tcc/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I was going to say, the list should include something by Fabrice Bellard. Tiny C Compiler is one. https://bellard.org/tcc/ I was thinking, maybe first version/commit of QEMU would be interesting to read. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago