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Emscripten
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Integrating Emscripten into projects is harder than it should beUnreviewed
20142026- Hard to get Emscripten wasm code working with wasm32-unknown-unknown2024-10-16
- Setting up and integrating Emscripten into projects is harder than it should be2015-06-17
- Emscripten's debug build gets stuck in linking and must be force quit2014-11-04
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Poorly documented, immature, and breaks with every update; behaviour is unexpected2024-12-18
- Hard to get Emscripten wasm code working with wasm32-unknown-unknown2024-10-16
- Cannot single-step C++ source when debugging the WebAssembly build2023-05-30
- Porting libraries to wasm is painful; compiler warnings are cryptic and every dependency must be rebuilt2021-02-28
- API ignores JavaScript conventions, returning an empty object where null marks the end of a list2017-04-06
- Setting up and integrating Emscripten into projects is harder than it should be2015-06-17
- Emscripten's debug build gets stuck in linking and must be force quit2014-11-04