ABSTRACT

That quote from Alon Zakai, Emscripten’s creator, is quite telling of the motivations behind Emscripten. Alon simply wanted to run his favorite game engine in the web. Being a Mozilla employee, Alon recognized the prevalence and reach of JavaScript; almost everyone already had a JavaScript runtime installed on their devices. Being able to safely execute remote code is one of the web’s greatest strengths; content that runs in JavaScript is not “silo-ed” to a particular browser or operating system.