[Lazarus] Firefox OS

[Sven Barth]

On 15.07.2013 13:01, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 15-7-2013 12:49, Kostas Michalopoulos wrote:
>> Since Firefox (and i assume Firefox OS) uses the new "asm.js" subset of
>> javascript (a js subset that looks like assembly which can be converted
>> to native code, something like a js-based portable LLVM bitcode),
>> couldn't FPC generate asm.js code instead of x86 assembly/machine code?
>>
>> Obviously that wouldn't solve the GUI issue (one will still need to
>> implement a HTML-based (or whatever) LCL backend, but i think with
>> canvas nowadays that is possible).
>
> Or perhaps even FPC=>LLVM backend=>emscripten=>javascript but perhaps
> that's a couple of conversions too many...

I would keep out LLVM and emscripten and just directly generate asm.js 
code which is then simply compatible to the libraries provided by the 
emscripten project.

Regards,
Sven