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Emscripten brings C++ code to web applications

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NewsBytes
NewsBytes Original post #1
Aug 30, 2010 at 2:51 PM
A project by Alon Zakai, of the Mobile Team at Mozilla, called Emscripten could ease a lot of work for those "porting" their native application to run on the web. Emscripten is an LLVM to JavaScript compiler; meaning that is can take LLVM bytecode, which can be generated from any language that can target LLVM (for example C++), and generate the corresponding JavaScript code.
This is not to be confused with Google’s NaCl (Native Client). Google’s solution allows web devel...

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