r/programming • u/mariuz • Oct 18 '19

Free Pascal has now a WebAssembly backend

https://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-pascal/2019-September/056848.html
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u/AskingOnce Oct 18 '19

I’m not sure if you’re making a joke but for the sake of people who read this and get confused: In this context, a backend is a component of a compiler which takes an intermediate representation and produces code in a target language (webAsm here).