Any Nix package, live in the browser

thenthenthen

Ugh cant stand the LLM-isms, cool idea tho, practical? For teaching maybe?

indemnity

Every damn vibe project: “Catchy hook, descriptive explanation”. Like they’ve all got their own marketing team now.

easterncalculus

Seems very cool. I'm wondering what the next step would be for performance here. Trying python as suggested is quite slow so far. ~ # time python3 hello.py Hello World! real 0m 5.48s user 0m 4.11s sys 0m 1.24s

yjftsjthsd-h

> we can run a Linux kernel in WebAssembly. For a moment I thought someone did a port of Linux to wasm, but this is actually x86_64 Linux in a wasm qemu (with JIT, granted, which I suppose blurs the line). That's probably a lot more practical. --- I'm stoked about the idea of using this for code review / bug reproduction / tutorials / demos. Obviously nix already gives you the reproducibility side of things, but running on any host system with zero setup and robust sandboxing should really improve its practical usefulness. Native nix doesn't give you "try this software by clicking a link and it works without installing anything", nor " here's some completely untrusted code someone wants you to run, and that's ~fine because it's in a browser tab".

rvz

Just looked at this and wondered, how much Claude AI slop went into this project and unsurprisingly a lot of it. The entire site reeks of Claudisms and I doubt that the author even cares or knows what they are doing. The GitHub put me off immediately. It's quite ridiculous to see such slop here and we are just going to see more of this.

nektro

so sick, nice work!

orangea

> The first time you run a binary, it is translated from x86_64 to WebAssembly and that takes time. If the binary is running under a real x64 linux kernel running in qemu, wouldn't that imply that the binary is never translated to wasm?