On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:25:26 -0700
Alon Zakai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Last week we released Emscripten 2.0.0. That's a big milestone as it's the
> first version to not support the old fastcomp backend anymore,
> 
> https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/11319
> 
> You can still use it by using an older version (the last to support
> fastcomp is 1.40.1), but the new upstream backend is better in every way!
> And it's been the default version when you install "latest" etc. for quite
> a while now.
> 

Thanks, Alon [and all] for this release and other work on emscripten. I got it
to work for https://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/js-fc-solve/text/ eventually.

> This is also the first version to not support Python 2.*, and only support
> 3.*
> 
> Both of those don't have immediate benefits, but they are letting us do a
> lot of cleanups and simplifications. See
> 
> https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/11860
> 
> We've already improved code quality quite a bit in just a week, and there's
> a lot more to come. These simplifications will speed up development. They
> will also unblock some things that were tricky to do while we supported two
> backends, such as some link time improvements and better debugging support
> - specifically we aim to do less during -O0 links, both for speed and to
> properly preserve DWARF info (for example, one of the first parts of that
> is in https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen/pull/3044).
> 
> - Alon
> 



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