Idea - make a website that lets you compile and test any open source program. For example, I should be able to clone, compile, and run gedit (a stagnating text editor included with many linux distros). This would let me quickly experiment with and edit a variety of programs and tools within the web browser without needing to get a development system up and running. I bet open source projects can get a ton of new hackers to continue development on their programs if everything could be worked on quickly within a web browser.
Second main issue is speed. qsterix isn't as memory-heavy but runs all Tetris game code inside KDE JavascriptCore, which as part of the KDE/Emscripten build is transpiled to JS. In other words, http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/emscripten-qt... is JavaScript inside JavaScript, and on my reasonable-but-not-last-week-new i3 box, I experience a small pause that I can't explain when I hit the spacebar to drop a block.
Half of me wants to warn everyone from opening these on their phones or tablets, the other half wants to know how badly everything crashes. :P
Note: I tried opening the Kate demo a week or so ago on a marginally older version of Chrome, and the download phase hung. It worked this time though.
Download of normal Kate hangs for me, too. But the noicon variant works well. However, I don't get a keyboard for text input (Chrome on Android/HTC10).
So, well, sorry to disappoint you :P
While Kate is already quite funny, I'm looking forward to someone porting Linux to the browser, so we can have a clientless desktop environment delivered from a serverless cloud ;)
I really want to run vim/g++ in a terminator on KDE on Linux on my phone connected to a keyboard+screen (once, for the laughs).
Something like that needs to be built into Github or a similar site. Along with fork and download, 'compile to web' should be an option.
Keeping code alive would also make long-term archiving of obsolete software viable, more so than just putting the code online, anyway. This is important because so much of our culture has been expressed by and tied up in software.
True. I think this would be a project within the open source community. Core libs (libXYZ) would be pre-compiled to WASM, and only the lib / program being hacked in would be modified in the browser. The compilation and linking would include the core libs. Maybe I will work on such a project, I will think about it.
