CHAPTER 18
HTML5 Games in C++ with Emscripten
If you had told me ten years ago that I’d someday compile real-time, 3D C++ games into JavaScript so I could run them in web browsers, I would have thought you were crazy. Since then, software has shifted from retail stores and optical discs to online app stores and web applications. Internet users have become increasingly security-conscious, and JavaScript engines have gotten faster by orders of magnitude.
The Web is the ultimate platform. It is secure: applications have no direct access to the local machine. It is seamless: users merely have to click ...
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