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Goblin - What are actual uses? (spritely.institute)
submitted 1 month ago by MNByChoice@midwest.social to c/programming@beehaw.org
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I am a jr. Dev, but not imaginative. I find most programming languages to be poorly advertised and explained. Usually they assume too much knowledge.

What would I use Web Assembly, like Goblin (https://spritely.institute/), for? Are there examples of Web Assembly programs?

It is for web pages, or online games? Can they be run offline?

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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

The goal of Goblins is to be able to create regular programs that can be distributed across networked machines/servers/clients easily without having to architect your code explicitly to handle the details of communication across the network.

Ah! So a new MPI!

Any big packages, like AMBER or CHARMM, picking it up?

[-] vivi@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

It's not really like MPI. It's more oriented towards writing social software that communicates over the Internet, as a next step beyond ActivityPub. You could use it for a lot of things, but one example is to write federated software like Lemmy where you have lots of instances communicating with each other. But it makes things more flexible, you can really make any sort of social app with it.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, thank you!

I appreciate you efforts to both explain to me and contribute to open source.

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