[vtk-developers] VTK/VES and emscripten?

[Steve Pieper]

Hi Folks -

Has anyone tried VES/VTK and emscripten[1]?  Other OpenGL (ES) game
platforms appear to compile to javascript and work with WebGL (even on a
phone!) and you can even run complete, if simple, Qt applications in a
browser.

I can already hear the purists scream about this being an 'ugly hack'
which, I have to admit, it kind of is.  But it also shows some promise and
for a certain subset of VTK functionality it might make sense to expose
javascript bindings this way rather than rewriting something new in pure
javascript.  See for example the zlib, python, sqlite, and other large
C/C++ code bases that are automagically available now in the browser.

Thoughts?
-Steve

[1] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki
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