This article is part of a web development series from Microsoft. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in C++, but wanted it to be displayed in the browser somehow? Well now, with a tool called Emscripte
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