Emscripten

[btiffin]

As an old guy, whose first computer, a TRS/80 Model I had 8K of RAM, I'm sad to announce this one.

But not really. There is a gold rush on the horizon.

http://emscripten.org/

code:

#include<stdio.h> int main() {   printf("hello, world!\n");   return 0; }

With the encapsulated emsdk, on this machine emcc compiles that C code to 9700 lines of Javascript. Some 360K.

code:

$ emcc tests/hello_world.c $ node a.out.js hello, world!   $ emcc tests/hello_world.c -o hello.html $ ls -la hello* -rw-rw-r--. 1 btiffin btiffin 102596 Nov 12 05:50 hello.html -rw-rw-r--. 1 btiffin btiffin 356065 Nov 12 05:50 hello.js

Which runs in the browser with a full featured terminal emulator, running hello world.

In my old guy opinion, who cares about half a meg between friends. Right? Wear a nice suit and tie, run a demo, go for the gold.

Cheers

[Tony]

The project's page already mentions Unity3D, and if one follows the writeups, we'll soon get the hilarity of

C# -> .Net bytecode -> C++ -> JS+webGL

which means 3D gaming in the browser, plugin free.