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Leaning Technologies
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Leaning Technologies is the company blog at leaningtech.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2013, 58 different Hacker News readers have linked it 145 times, most often “WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Leaning Technologies' pages on running x86 programs, Java and C++ in the browser via WebAssembly, such as WebVM, CheerpX, CheerpJ and Cheerp, mostly as examples of the technology.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Cheerp is said to 'pretty much nail it' by one commenter.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Run anything in the browser with Leaning Technologies' groundbreaking runtime infrastructure for AI execution and web applications.
Most-linked posts?
- WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-02-01
- /cheerpx-for-flash/6 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
- /cheerpj/6 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2021-03-18
- CheerpJ – Java WASM Compiler5 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2020-03-09
- WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-06
- Cheerp: A C++ Compiler for the Web4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-09-28
- PartialExecuter: Reducing WebAssembly size by exploring all executions in LLVM4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-11
- /pages/cheerpx.html3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-01
- CheerpX for Flash3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-06
- Hello client, meet the DOM3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-04
What Hacker News says?
> How true. To paraphrase Henry Ford, if HTML5 developers asked instead what casual users wanted, we would now have a faster Flash. Like this? https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html
Comment linking /pages/cheerpx.html
on “Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products”Submitted WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser as a story · 352 points
HN discussionYes, with https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machin... . Wild stuff.
Comment linking /webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser/
on “Infinite Mac”Submitted PartialExecuter: Reducing WebAssembly size by exploring all executions in LLVM as a story · 295 points
HN discussionHere's a talk by the team as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUs4c99-mo And their website: https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html This is honestly one of the coolest things I've seen, and given the amount of Flex/Spark software for enterprise out there, it could drastically change the legacy software landscape.
Comment linking /pages/cheerpx.html
on “Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020”Submitted WebVM: WASM virtual machine in browser with networking via Tailscale as a story · 226 points
HN discussionThat already exists. In fact the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL playground loads a full Linux VM as part of how it works. Take a look at this project: https://webvm.io/ - explained here: https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machin...
Comment linking /webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser/
on “Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser”Submitted Cheerp 1.1 – C++ for the Web with fast startup times, dynamic memory as a story · 67 points
HN discussionWASM is still catching up with Flash CrossBridge from 2011. "Unreal Engine 3 Support for Adobe Flash Player - Unreal Tournament 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiUP2Hd60Y https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ Luckily we are getting our plugins back, even in its present state. https://platform.uno/ https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor And naturally Flash and Java applets, https://www.lean…
Comment linking /pages/cheerpj.html
on “Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla”Submitted Cheerp: A C++ Compiler for the Web as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSeems like it's out of capacity: An error occurred (VcpuLimitExceeded) when calling the RunInstances operation: You have requested more vCPU capacity than your current vCPU limit of 64 allows for the instance bucket that the specified instance type belongs to. Please visit http://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ec2-request to request an adjustment to this limit. Maybe something like https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-le…
Comment linking /webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser/
on “Show HN: SadServers – Test your Linux troubleshooting skills”Submitted Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications as a story · 59 points
HN discussionI'd say cheerp pretty much nails it. http://leaningtech.com/cheerp/
Comment linking /cheerp/
on “Principles of Rich Web Applications”Submitted Duetto compiles C++ applications to JavaScript as a story · 38 points
HN discussionAlready done. https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/ https://teavm.org/
Comment linking /cheerpj/
on “Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC”Submitted Cheerp 3.0: The most advanced C++ compiler for the Web now permissively licensed as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIt will definitly be the new common, by killing Flash et all without comparable tooling, while at the same time offering WASM, it was only a matter of time until we had the revenge of plugins. Basically 10 years wasting time to come full circle. https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/ https://opensilver.net/ All of the three major ones are now back, but it is ok, WASM is great!
Comment linking /cheerpx-for-flash/
on “Prime Video Uses WebAssembly”Submitted Show HN: CheerpX – x86 virtualization in browser using WebAssembly – Python Demo as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAsk and you will be served, https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html
Comment linking /pages/cheerpj.html
on “Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming”Submitted WebVM: Linux Virtualization in WebAssembly with Full Networking via Tailscale as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHere, there you go, https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/ https://www.teavm.org/
Comment linking /cheerpj/
on ““I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)”Submitted CheerpJ – plugin-free Java in the browser as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat was the idea, the world decided otherwise based on the Flash and Silverlight experience versus clunky Web. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://platform.uno/ https://leaningtech.com/ https://flutter.dev/ https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly
Comment linking /
on “WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser”Submitted Mini.WebVM: Your own Linux box from Dockerfile, virtualized in-browser via WASM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere is Cheerp. https://www.leaningtech.com/cheerp/
Comment linking /cheerp/
on “Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly”Submitted CheerpX: Using WebAssembly to run any programming language in the browser as a story · 4 points
HN discussionExcept it is not. https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html https://www.qt.io/blog/2018/05/22/qt-for-webassembly https://platform.uno/ https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
Comment linking /pages/cheerpj.html
on “QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten”Submitted PythonFiddle: Fully private client-side sample code execution and sharing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, cheerp https://www.leaningtech.com/cheerp/
Comment linking /cheerp/
on “Universal Binaries Using WASM”Submitted CheerpX for Flash as a story · 3 points
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