CIB: Getting The Clang Compiler To Run In A Web Browser

[GunpowaderGuy]

Cool , but i would rather prefer web text editors / IDEs such as Monaco to use ( or at least default to ) the stock clang compiler

[wizard69]

This is one of those things that you can't help but to ask why yet on the other hand admire the person taking this on. Now given that what the demonstrates more than anything is how far the whole LLVM project has come, effectively a fully fleshed out suite of tools.

[dwagner]

This is not the first time a generic compiler was made to work inside a browser - the in-browser VMs available at https://bellard.org/jslinux/ used to come with a functional gcc included - here's an archive.org link to an older version from 2012 that was still containing gcc: http://web.archive.org/web/201202290...d.org/jslinux/

While technically a nice demonstration, I think it is creepy how the common people confuse browsers with operating systems these days, and developers follow suit, emphasizing way too seldom how turning your browser into an operating system will basically lower the safety of your system to that of the browser. It's weird how people think it's safe to automatically execute whatever software they load if only it comes to them via HTTP(S) protocol...

[PluMGMK]

This is amazing and probably somewhat terrifying…

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CIB: Getting The Clang Compiler To Run In A Web Browser

CIB is a new hobby project getting the full-blown Clang C/C++ compiler to run within a web browser as a technical feat...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CIB-Clang-In-Browser