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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

487 points · 270 comments · boredjohnny

Pannoniae · 1790114334 · focus · HN ↗
Great job! 32-to-64-bit conversions are always fun :) One question though. If this is intended for desktop, why bother with WASM at all? Do you gain anything other than less performance?
1. boredjohnny · 1790118689 · focus · HN ↗
  Because the same module runs in three places: inside the Electron IDE, in the shipped app, and in the test suite under jsdom, with no native build per platform. The other reason is the boundary itself: wasm exports can't re-enter, which forced the design where every side effect is yielded to the host and the VM is never on the stack while a dialog is up. That's what makes MESSAGEBOX not freeze the window. Perf isn't where these apps hurt, they're I/O and UI bound, and VFP itself was a p-code interpreter. The crate is plain Rust, the CLI runner is native, so a native build is a cargo flag away if it ever matters
  1. dang · 1790122215 · focus · HN ↗
    Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.
    Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but your comments are getting classified that way.
    (The project itself is fine, of course, to submit to HN. We just want text on this site to be entirely human-written.)
    boredjohnny · 1790127341 · focus · HN ↗
    Hi! thank you for the candid response.

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