Blink: A potential way to run full C/C++/Go/Node.JS programs and more on iOS?

[zaptrem]

Could Blink utilize a simple internal web server + WebKit's JIT capabilities through JavaScript to create an offline and persistent implementation of Browsix ("Unix In Your Browser Tab") to unlock more powerful tools and potentially enable the use of arbitrary Unix development tools and programs on iOS? I stumbled across both this project and Browsix while looking into iPad development environments and thought the possibilities were interesting.

[zaptrem]

Another clunkier but potentially more finished/fully featured solution is JSLinux: https://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html

[yury]

Some progress on that

[diogoviannaaraujo]

hi @yury is there a public development branch of this node running version somewhere?

[yury]

Nope, I stopped experiments for this for now. Turns out it very hard to make it thread safe (to run multiple node engines)