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You know, now that I think about it... Node projects pretty much have all their tooling written in JavaScript already. I wonder how hard it'd be to run all that in the browser directly (right now I think this IDE is handling that on the server).

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That's one of our goals, we're already doing a lot client side but the goal is to client side all things - https://github.com/wasdk/WebAssemblyStudio/projects/3

Depends on the project... for example, I was really sad that Sass won over Less only because the implementation for Sass was C/C++ (or Ruby), and Less was straight JS.

There are a number of C/C++ based node libraries... I think sass, sqlite are probably the two most popular. Any dependents of nan[0], node-gyp and node-pre-gyp are others.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/nan

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