c/linux · by ruffsl@programming.dev · 5dAny Nix package, live in your browser - Farid Zakaria https://fzakaria.com/2026/09/04/any-nix-package-live-in-your-browser27 points · 4 comments · view on lemmy.world
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epyon22@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 5d
Holy shit web assembly compiled qemu vm runs nix in your browser
aarch0x40@piefed.social · 5 pts · 5d
Omg, and you can even launch a browser in it to run another qemu guest!!
epyon22@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 5d
Tested a very very basic performance test with python and it was 100x slower
ruffsl@programming.dev · 7 pts · 5d
Python being an interpreted language may be one of the worst case scenarios there. Whenever I try using python from either a docker container of a foreign CPU architecture using qemu, or even a proot on Android , it's dog slow as well.