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Has anyone heard about Microsoft working on a similar project? The proof of concept last summer seemed to have raised a lot of interest among Microsoft people. I hope they take that route.

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Blazor is an experimental web UI framework using C#/Razor and HTML, running client-side via WebAssembly.

Blazor : https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Blazor

We are Microsoft employees :-)

I meant Microsoft as in throwing the full weight of Visual studio integration and tooling!

Why are there currently 2 projects aiming to run C# code in WebAssembly? I mean this one and coreRT?

Lots of people out there use mono, and if they want to run in the browser, it wouldn't hurt for mono to have webassembly support would it? :)

Yes. Please make C#->WASM robust and production capable.

Now please. Now now now!

Edit : I misread this article. Neiter of the projects i mentioned target webassembly. But CoreRT could one day.

Microsoft has two similar projects:

CoreRT : Which is a managed re-implementation of the CLR allowing for AoT compilation.

LLILC : A LLVM Backend for .NET MSIL. (Stalled)

https://github.com/dotnet/corert

https://github.com/dotnet/llilc

CoreRT's WASM support is being worked on:

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/tree/master/src/ILCompiler....

There are some instructions here:

https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/h...

Very cool! It seems I was more correct than I thought.

You can also contribute and track the progress here: https://github.com/dotnet/corert/issues/4659

Xamarin is Microsoft :)

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