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Depends on how you define "user friendly". IMHO emscripten does what a gcc-compatible C/C++ toolchain is supposed to do:

> emcc hello.c -o hello.html

...which gives you a complete WebAssembly application runnable in the browser.

With VSCode as IDE it's possible to build a fairly nice edit-compile-test workflow with Intellisense and error squiggles.

BUT:

What's really missing is proper debugging support (can mostly be worked around by debugging a platform-native executable compiled from the same source, but working source-level debugging for WASM blobs would be nice).



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