Nice to hear! I think there are other such business apps uses, but most are completely internal things and not mentioned publicly. So we just don't hear about them.
- Alon On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
