Re: Any thoughts about compiler package manager for web assembly?

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/761

Thanks Luke Briggs for the suggestion of where this should go. Btw, can you
post your replies to me about this idea to the link above? Or would you
rather I post it on your behalf? Either works.

Anyhow, any further discussions about this concept shall go to this issue
page.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Samuel Reid <samuelwreid@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I for one do not mind receiving ideas like this via the mailing list.
> However, I would agree that the majority of the discussion following the
> initial idea should take place on GitHub. Perhaps open an issue first, and
> then send the same info in an email that includes a link back to the
> conversation on GitHub.
>
> Cheers,
> -Sam Reid
>
> > On Aug 14, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Luke Briggs <luke@kulestar.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey there,
> >
> > Please keep this kind of suggestion over on Github rather than this
> (very large!) mailing list.
> >
> > As a quick thought though, I don't think this would work because of
> security; people won't want code from 3rd parties being uncontrollably
> included in their site. So something like:
> >
> > <script src='https://python.org/webRuntime.wasm'></script>
> >
> > <script type='text/python'>
> > ...python here..
> > </script>
> >
> > Only involves one extra line and works without any centralized
> involvement which is overall better for openness anyway imo.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Luke Briggs
> >
> >> On 2016-08-14 14:21, mofo syne wrote:
> >> What does this mean in practice for the average user if this idea is
> >> implemented? It may mean that on the top of any html page, you should
> >> declare what language dependencies your html uses (does it use C,
> >> python, ruby, javascript, or dart etc...). This would prompt the
> >> browser to check a package manager for the latest compiler/interpreter
> >> that can understand these language.
> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 10:32 PM, mofo syne <mofosyne@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I am sure this has been thought of, but I haven't found this idea in
> >>> google searches.
> >>> What would be interesting, is if the web assembly
> >>> infrastructure/standard provide some mechanism for automatically
> >>> dealing with compilers/interpreters besides javascript.
> >>> So much like having a package manager automatically download
> >>> dependencies in linux. What may be useful is if there is a online
> >>> repository of wasm binaries of interpreters and compilers for all
> >>> the major languages in the web.
> >>> What this would allow, is for users to insert source code into their
> >>> website besides javascript, take for instance those who want to give
> >>> dart programming language a shot. The major issues hampering
> >>> experimentation with languages besides javascript is the lack of
> >>> support of browsers for other languages.
> >>> WASM helps solve the javascript hold over client side scripting, but
> >>> at a potential cost to openness of the code. Hosting a common
> >>> popular compiler infrastructure manager would encourage users to
> >>> insert normal source code into their website besides javascript.
> >>> Well that's my 5cents to the discussion. I'm sure this is not the
> >>> only way to approach the aspect of making wasm more open to others
> >>> that chose to be open.
> >>> Cheers,
> >
> >
>