What's the point ?! It's insane. Who on earth would use that?

MomsAVoxell 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

These questions are the number two most important questions to ask, in software. The sanity/insanity part is not so relevant, but it is necessary to point out that, pretty much a huge percentage of software any of us uses on a daily basis, started off with someone having a random insanity, answering those two questions with a working binary, and thus setting the idea towards becoming normal and thus sane.

Soon enough, WASM may just well be the #1 platform upon which to run a Linux on a Desktop ..

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iamnothere 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I can think of a few uses quite easily:

- Testing a distro or specific software without downloading it

- Educational use (teaching Linux basics on Chromebooks etc)

- Bypassing restrictions on installing certain software

	▲	MBCook 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, thank you! I think this is really cool but I was struggling to think of a way it could be useful. Your last two suggestions seem especially pertinent.

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tracker1 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because someone can... While I don't see a practical use myself, beyond educational or experimental, that doesn't mean nobody else could, should or would.

In the end, it's kinda cool.

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afavour 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t think it’s that big a stretch of the imagination to see how this could be used in smaller pieces than the entirety of Linux.

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trollbridge 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah. Basically any code you can run on Linux you can now run on a browser with a lot less work.

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lxgr 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Realistically, with quite a bit more work (compared to e.g. v86), but at much higher performance.

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kbelder 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Like Lynx?

	▲	VladVladikoff 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yo dog

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phendrenad2 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

To elicit surprised cries of delight from the HN readers, of course!