Something Interesting. Javascript x86 emulator

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Re: Something Interesting. Javascript x86 emulator

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I'm not sure what everyone here is impressed about... I see two options:
  • Fabrice Bellard wrote something and that automatically makes it awesome for some reason.
  • Someone wrote an emulator (of which there are dozens, most of them better) in JavaScript (which is an elegant language to write things in).
Am I missing anything here? :wink:
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Meh. You missed the fancy cloud-ness of having an OS run in your web browser, without a need for some third-party browser plugin :)
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berkus wrote:
JamesM wrote:Am I the only person who really likes Javascript's purity?
No.
Third. It's a beauty and I love it. With a strong foundation you can do (almost) anything in it and it would be also readable (unlinke Perl :P).
I've worked with jQuery for a while now, I may try Prototype at some point, for it's nice class implementation.
Oh, and I have my own shell/module implementation, powered by v8. It has some neat features you won't find and node.js, and it's dead simple to write modules for. Too bad I don't have time/motivation for expanding it :(.
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Neolander wrote:Meh. You missed the fancy cloud-ness of having an OS run in your web browser, without a need for some third-party browser plugin :)
Right, except there are already better ways of running applications across networks than in your browser (remotely or not)... I call /fail on this one. Now, sharing CPUs in a distributed system---that would've been cool.
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