@Robert : yes ... nacl is dead. And plugins are problematic. Probably a plugin wouldnt work on iphone for a start, and you would need to implement the plugin for many platforms ... and people need to install it etc. Plugins are a bit 2000 ;) flash and java and friends .... they are going to disappear sooner or later

> Also-- what about compiling libpd using emscripten?

I think some people already did that (Martin Roth?) ! It would probably work fine, the only thing is there will be issues with all the parts where the code needs to cooperate with the browser. Typically : loading resources (sound files), updating some graphics, etc ... Also you probably couldn't script things with JS.

But most of all I think (Chris tell me if I'm wrong), WebPd started as an experiment to see what could be done in the browser only. Myself, I like that idea of doing only JavaScript. Pushing JS forward, developing tools to do dsp, etc ... so giving back to the JavaScript ecosystem through developing WebPd is a nice thought to me. Also you know ... I no nothing about C/C++ :) and I know JS quite well ... and as they say "if all you have is a hammer , everything looks like a nail" !!! On the other hand, that's also why I like the idea I explained in the other post about removing the dsp implementation from teh core. One other possible flavour of WebPd could be that the dsp is implemented as small functions in C compiled with emscripten. Even maybe why not reusing some of libpd? But I probably can't do it myself ...