From gtk-devel Mon Nov 20 18:23:08 2017 From: Emmanuele Bassi Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:23:08 +0000 To: gtk-devel Subject: Re: webassembly Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gtk-devel&m=151120220409522 On 20 November 2017 at 17:34, Andrea Zagli wrote: > Il giorno lun 20 nov 2017 16:02:11 CET, Emmanuele Bassi ha scritto: > >> Hi; >> >> On 20 November 2017 at 14:52, Andrea Zagli via gtk-devel-list >> wrote: >>> >>> do you plan to port (i don't know if "port" is the right word) glib/gtk >>> to >>> webassembly? >> >> >> There are no plans that I'm aware of, nor use cases that have >> materialised that would require such a port. >> > > > > for example it could replace broadway Considering that the Broadway backend is mostly a toy, and it hasn't seen much development at all in master, I'm not sure replacing it is going to work. Writing new GDK backends, and ensuring that they keep working, is not a trivial matter. > since i hate other languages than c, i wrote a little library with glib to > easy develop cgi; and i use other libraries (libgda, libsoup, libxml, etc > etc) to make my web apps > > the base code for that web apps is always a library that i use also for the > gui backend of the web app > > with webassembly i could write backend and frontend in glib/gtk If you are volunteering to write a new GDK backend, and maintain it, then by all means: feel free to work on it and submit your code for review! I strongly advise you work on the master branch, as the rendering model has drastically changed from the gtk-2-24 and gtk-3-22 stable branches. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list