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Any Nix package, live in your browser - Farid Zakaria (fzakaria.com)
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[–] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit web assembly compiled qemu vm runs nix in your browser

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

Omg, and you can even launch a browser in it to run another qemu guest!!

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

This is really cool! I'm surprised how fast it boots on my phone.

[–] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tested a very very basic performance test with python and it was 100x slower

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago

Python being an interpreted language may be one of the worst case scenarios there. Whenever I try using python from either a docker container of a foreign CPU architecture using qemu, or even a proot on Android , it's dog slow as well.