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Emscripten

Emscripten is an LLVM to JavaScript compiler. Created by Alon Zakai

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Emscripten is an LLVM to JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode (which can be generated from C/C++ using Clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM bitcode) and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run).

Using Emscripten, you can

* Compile C and C++ code into JavaScript and run that on the web
* Run code in languages like Python as well, by compiling CPython from C to JavaScript and interpreting code in that on the web
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python-to-javascript transcompiler c-to-javascript desktop-to-web cpp-to-web cpp-to-javascript llvm-to-javascript llvm

Emscripten was added by piotrex in Feb 2013 and the latest update was made in Nov 2014. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2014 There is a history of all activites on Emscripten in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Emscripten or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Bananabread - example of program which is written in C++ and OpenGL, and compiles it using Emscripten into JavaScript and WebGL

A Qt Painter application running in Javascript. The Qt framework, natively written in c++, was converted into Javascript using Emscripten.

Using Emscripten, OpenTTD, a game built originally using C++, can now run in a web-browser after being converted into Javascript (using this tool).

OpenDUNE, originally written in C, running in a web-browser after being converted into Javascript by Emscripten.

Epic Citadel, using the full Unreal Engine 3 which was ported in 4 days.

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