Lightning Talk: The Present and Future of Cross-Platform GUI in C++

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Desktop apps now lean on Node.js/web stacks and suffer huge memory and binary bloat from bundling Chromium and Node, while cross‑compiling C++ to wasm breaks threads and filesystem assumptions. WASI and runtimes like wasmer JS SDK enable a single wasm binary to run in and out of the browser with near‑native performance, exposing threads, files, and sockets, but mouse events and audio APIs are missing and most cutting‑edge work currently happens in Rust rather than C++.

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