I ported Xonotic to WASM
Details
- External ID
- 48447487
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I ported Xonotic to WASM
- Website domain
- workers.dev
- Launched
- June 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.31420765027322406
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- xonotic game ported to webassembly
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Porting a legacy C/C++ 3D game engine (DarkPlaces/Quake derivative) to WebAssembly and WebGL 2.0 requires deep expertise in low-level graphics programming, Emscripten toolchains, and engine architecture.
What it would actually take: The project requires compiling the C codebase using Emscripten, translating OpenGL fixed-function and custom shader calls to WebGL 2.0, and refactoring POSIX threading, audio (OpenAL to Web Audio), and networking (sockets to WebSockets/WebRTC). It demands specialized knowledge in C/C++ memory management, browser memory limits, asset packaging into virtual filesystems, and low-level graphics debugging.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #177 of 269 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 219 days after the earliest competitor.
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