we'll throw a ui in front of an existing open-source project, waste a billion dollars, push all the code upstream, file bankruptcy, shrug, and do it again in 2 years.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    See if you can get OpenOffice to compile via Emscripten, to make a jankier, more full-featured version of Google Docs. Business To Business is hot in the VC world right now (because consumers have no money) and a lot of VCs are sore about not getting in on Google and Microsoft on the ground floor, so that should be tempting to them.

    • ChapoBapo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      get OpenOffice to compile via Emscripten

      Think of the performance

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Isn't emscripten the thing that compiles to wasm? I don't actually know much about transpilers.

        • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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          4 years ago

          Emscripten compiles to asm.js, which is a subset of JavaScript chosen to be ideal to compile ahead of time (for well optimised engines). Wasm is kind of a successor to asm.js in that other languages will now be mostly compiled to Wasm instead of asm.js