What is Emscripten?
This allows applications and libraries originally designed to run as standard executables to be integrated into client side web applications.
Emscripten is a tool in the JavaScript Compilers category of a tech stack.
Emscripten is an open source tool with 25.1K GitHub stars and 3.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Emscripten's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Emscripten?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Emscripten in their tech stacks, including Cubbit, In-browser SDKs, and BlueRange.
Developers
15 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Emscripten.
Emscripten's Features
- Compile C and C++ code into JavaScript
- Compile any other code that can be translated into LLVM bitcode into JavaScript
- Compile the C/C++ runtimes of other languages into JavaScript
Emscripten Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Emscripten?
WebAssembly
It is an open standard that defines a portable binary code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.
Rust
Rust is a systems programming language that combines strong compile-time correctness guarantees with fast performance. It improves upon the ideas of other systems languages like C++ by providing guaranteed memory safety (no crashes, no data races) and complete control over the lifecycle of memory.
WebGL
It is integrated completely into all the web standards of the browser allowing GPU accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas. Its elements can be mixed with other HTML elements.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
