Any real, simple c++ toolchain compiling directly to .WASM?
Emscripten is not really user friendly.
Time is passing, WASM is here but I can't see decent toolchains available to work with it.
Emscripten is not really user friendly.
Time is passing, WASM is here but I can't see decent toolchains available to work with it.
> emcc hello.c -o hello.html
...which gives you a complete WebAssembly application runnable in the browser.
With VSCode as IDE it's possible to build a fairly nice edit-compile-test workflow with Intellisense and error squiggles.
BUT:
What's really missing is proper debugging support (can mostly be worked around by debugging a platform-native executable compiled from the same source, but working source-level debugging for WASM blobs would be nice).
If you are looking for an easy setup of LLVM's own wasm-target (which Emscripten will be switching to eventually), try this tool: https://github.com/appcypher/wasabi
That said, the Rust team has been putting a ton of work into a real, simple toolchain for exactly these reasons: tools matter for adoption. We'll see if the pain of the toolchain is less or greater than the pain of a different language...