I'm contracting for a company that has an unusual word processor they have been selling for 23 years. The editor must paginate pixel by pixel to an exact industry standard (yes that is a bit weird).
They have hired two different contracting firms to implement their app on all browsers and both firms failed and gave up. They got the idea it was impossible. I told them I could do anything (of course) and they hired me. I took their 23-year-old windows C app (30,000 lines) and ported it using emscripten. I emulated some windows features like the mem mgr but most importantly I converted their GDI calls to canvas calls and output the text on a canvas. They think I'm a genius now thanks to emscripten. So I am just posting this to thank everyone on the team and people on this forum. I'm curious, does anyone know of another project that ported old non-game code? I see games everywhere, and some people are developing new web apps by writing them in C++ but I've not seen this kind of legacy business logic. Of course the weirdest part is that they will still be developing on this C codebase for another 23 years so emscripten needs to be supported on new web technology for a long time. Now, if LLVM/emscripten supported Cobol ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
