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Has anyone got any idea how practical it would be to port Oolite to JavaScript?

Emscripten (and others) will apparently compile C++ to JavaScript, and as I would like to be able to play Oolite on my ChromeBook, this seemed a possible route.

Oolite is written in objective C, not C++. Even if there were a similar thing for objective C, I'd vote for insanely impractical.

The first problem I see here is that Oolite is not written in C++. But even if you manage to find something that translates Objective-C to Javascript, I still don't see it happening.

Edit: Ninjas everywhere.

Oops! My bad. I had a brain fart - of course Oolite is written Objective C.

What we want is a full rewrite of oolite in HTML5/WebGL.

A daunting task for sure, but a man can dream.

Me, I'm currently reading about WebGL and I'd love to try to at least make a mini-game where the goal would be to dock to a coriolis station:




Also, it so happens that a WebGL online course will begin in a few days on coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/webgl

Again, a man can dream !

grondilu wrote:

What we want is a full rewrite of oolite in HTML5/WebGL.

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Also, it so happens that a WebGL online course will begin in a few days on coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/webgl

I've done some playing about with Three.js, but currently have limited bandwidth due to day_job && small_child_monster++

If you get something going with WebGL that would be awesome. If you're putting code on GitHub or similar please post coordinates.

Crush wrote:

grondilu wrote:

What we want is a full rewrite of oolite in HTML5/WebGL.

...

Also, it so happens that a WebGL online course will begin in a few days on coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/webgl

I've done some playing about with Three.js, but currently have limited bandwidth due to day_job && small_child_monster++

If you get something going with WebGL that would be awesome. If you're putting code on GitHub or similar please post coordinates.

I created a new thread because this one was explicitly about Emscripten.

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17433

grondilu wrote:

I created a new thread because this one was explicitly about Emscripten.

https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17433

You actually created a new thread called WebGL effort