Re: [sc-dev] Anyone wants to take on WebAssembly?

[contact@xxxxxxxx]

nice! what would be a good place to collect ideas and links? is a GH
ticket the right place to track progress, or elsewhere? perhaps
supercollider/rfcs ?

best, .h.h.


On 27/10/2020 21:39, christof.ressi@xxxxxx wrote:
> Just wanted to say that Pd can already be compiled for WASM with
> emscripten: https://mathr.co.uk/empd/
> 
> Maybe that can serve as a starting point?
> 
> Christof
> 
> On 27.10.2020 21:34, contact@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> hi folks,
>>
>> I know main devs were not particularly keen on spending time on an
>> scsynth wasm target when I asked last time, but perhaps there are other
>> people out there who would be interested in exploring that avenue?
>>
>> My personal interest got renewed after coming back to Scala.js for my
>> client, and seeing that the JS back-end compiler these days is rock
>> solid. I think it would be fantastic to make sound installations or
>> sketches work in the client-side browser. I even hacked up a WebAudio
>> UGen for my FScape non-realtime DSP system to test the thing -- see
>> https://www.sciss.de/temp/soundprocesses.js/ -- but of course this was
>> never designed for this scenario, so first of all, that's all JavaScript
>> not Assembly, and it has a rather complicated streaming framework behind
>> (Akka Stream) instead of the relatively simple scsynth graph processing;
>> so no wonder it is not very efficient in CPU terms.
>>
>> I believe the sweet spot is to run the client through JS (that could be
>> ScalaCollider/SoundProcesses, supercollider.js, or other languages that
>> probably can run in the browser, like Python) and the server through
>> wasm. Csound people tell me wasm support was quite a good addition.
>>
>> Now, as I've stated repeatedly, my C skills are very small, same for
>> LLVM and emscripten, and I don't know how entangled the build targets
>> for scsynth vs sclang are. But if anyone sees this as an opportunity to
>> experiment, I'm happy to try to learn the necessary stuff to start
>> building a branch of scsynth against wasm (if it's doable at all -- but
>> why not?).
>>
>> Feel free to reply to the thread or ping me directly.
>>
>> Best, .h.h.
>>
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