Same approach but for rust in browser

[naorzr]

I was wondering, do you think this approach can be used to run rust in the browser? if so, how would you go about it?

btw, awesome project!

[soedirgo]

Thanks!

To run Rust tooling (rustc, cargo, etc.) on the browser, I believe you'd need to compile them to wasm32-emscripten, and the compiled rustc needs to support the wasm32-wasi target. They basically play the role of clang -cc1 or llc in the README.

Looking at https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html, rustc does support compiling to wasm32-wasi which is good, but wasm32-emscripten is only at Tier 2 support w/o host tools, so you'd need to experiment a bit to get it to compile to wasm32-emscripten.

Would love to see rustc running in the browser though!