'Amazing what you can do in a web browser': pure C demos sidestep JavaScript entirely
YishengJiang · x · 2026-09-04
Reacting to Yacine MTB's demo of pure C running in the browser, YishengJiang notes how much talent Google poured into making Chrome/JavaScript fast — while this approach skips JavaScript entirely. Yacine explains everything is C, loading bundles via Web APIs over a bridge, with a WebGL texture flag enabling faster one-pixel-at-a-time updates.
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