Indeed, this is exactly what I was thinking. From an engineering maintenance perspective, even if you managed to get something "working", the result would be an incomprehensible mess. I don't usually like to speak in such extremes, and I certainly don't mean any offense, but in this case it's warranted: this is a pretty bad idea.
On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 14:08 -0400, Mike Nice wrote: > On 8/4/2020 7:21 AM, pangoSE wrote: > > I suggest we wait for ruffle to be ready and then compile P2 to > > first wasm and then decompile it into C and then translate it into > > rust. > > It can then be cleaned up and shipped to both as a desktop > > application and a wasm binary run in the browser. > ruffle -> wasm -> C -> rust is unlikely to be useful. Sure it might > run, but all program comments will have been stripped. The automatic > C > -> Rust step is likely to generate unsafe mode code that must be > cleaned > up to fully see the benefits of Rust. And finally, the result > would > not be maintainable over the long term without a huge amount of > cleanup. > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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