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WorkLifeBalance
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Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flas...
Would it be possible to run the flash plguin/runtime in wasm to get the benefits of flash (easy to produce, a lot of legacy content) with the sandbox of wasm?
steveklabnik
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In theory, yup! I haven't seen anyone try it though.
Vinnl
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Ha, maybe it's time for a WASM-revival of Gnash! [1]
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https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
sebazzz
on July 26, 2018
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That is only up to Adobe or the developers of that other OSS flash runtime/reimplementation.
kodablah
on July 26, 2018
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Not too sure. You can probably lift it to LLVM bitcode, e.g. with [0], and compile back to WASM. But yes, not sure of the specific the DLL calls.
0 -
https://github.com/trailofbits/mcsema
gameswithgo
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