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Any Nix package, live in your browser - Farid Zakaria (fzakaria.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Holy shit web assembly compiled qemu vm runs nix in your browser

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    This is really cool! I'm surprised how fast it boots on my phone.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Tested a very very basic performance test with python and it was 100x slower

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago

    Python being an interpreted language may be one of the worst case scenarios there. Whenever I try using python from either a docker container of a foreign CPU architecture using qemu, or even a proot on Android , it's dog slow as well.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    This is super cool, surprised nobody has angrily posted about the AI yet

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I'll have to think of ways to use this as at the moment, I have no use for it. It is pretty cool though.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Really cool but also significantly limited by QEMU-in-WASM performance. I know Nixpkgs has some WASM cross-compilation capabilities, wonder if it can be hacked further to enable something like this running more "natively"

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