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[ygra]

WebAssembly. The spiritual successor to asm.js for representing an easier compile target to browsers from C/C++.

In any case, the sheer size of LaTeX will make such an endeavour probably not very useful (Download 1 GiB to render a document? Probably not.)

[zeveb → ygra]

> Download 1 GiB to render a document? Probably not.

Any day now we'll be downloading 1 GB in order to read an article, so just give it time …

[leephillips → ygra]

Almost all the mass in a TeX installation is in the fonts and documentation. If you just need a TeX engine (lualatex) and use system fonts, it's just a MB or two.

[dmlittle → leephillips]

In asm.js (excluding fonts and documentation) it's about 3 MB https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex-wor...

[WrtCdEvrydy → ygra]

Oh yeah, I've heard of Web assembly, just not the acronym.