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For those wondering about the "why", this post details the motivation: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/23/client-side-webas...

Basically for learning/interactive tutorials, trying out something quickly in different PHP versions (which is cumbersome right now), secure and easy demos for themes and plugins.

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Pretty amazing to get all of PHP working in WASM. Next maybe we can get full MySQL, too (like the Crunchy Postgres port [0] [1]).

Would also love to see it for Java, Go, Perl, Sed, and Awk :)

What if Intelli-J could run in the browser? Yes please.

I bet some of these even already exist. What a time to be alive, 15 years ago I'd never have guessed Javascript could evolve into this!

[0] https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/crazy-idea-to-postgres-in-t...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498435 (August 22, 2022; 814 points, 172 comments)

^ n.b. Submitted by @samwillis

You mean to say that PHP and different versions of it are able to be simulated via JS on Web apps? Kind of crazy actually

I don’t think it’s via JS, it’s via WebAssembly. WebAssembly doesn’t use JS, it’s separate, although you can interface with WASM via JS.

Is it my turn to post this prophetic talk? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

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