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Subject: Re: Ada to webassembly
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On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 8:12:01 PM UTC+10, mockturtle wrote:
> Dear.all,  :-)
> I remember several months ago someone was petting with the idea of having=
 a backend for WebAssembly.  To be honest, I like the idea of abandoning Ja=
vaScript (ugh! Gross... Go wash your keyboard with soap! :-))  for Ada in w=
eb development (although I do not do web development...)
>=20
> I am curious about the current status of this idea. Is someone working on=
 it? =20
>=20
>=20
> I searched in the group for "WebAssembly," but I found only one post that=
 suggested  Ada->C->webassembly.

Hi

I believe that the LLVM backend does support webassembly (to what extent, I
don't know). So until LLVM has a front end to Ada, then the above approach,
ie Ada -> C -> webassembly could possible be an alternative ?

Alex