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Yep! It's a completely portable target and fulfils the promise of “compile once, run anywhere”, although how well it runs depends on the particular browser.

(It is pretty amazing you can compile C code to something that actually runs on multiple machines, it's very nice.)



Yes, this sounds awesome.

Can this be used as alternative to native modules in Node.js?


That is a good question. I imagine it depends on why it is a native module. If they are native module because it utilizing features at the OS or machine level, then I doubt they could.


Well, whatever syscalls you want to make could be made by node.js for you, though that quickly veers into absurdist territory.


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