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uiua-lang / uiua

A stack-based array programming language
https://www.uiua.org
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`&sl` and others make the website inaccessible #564

Open thecaralice opened 1 month ago

thecaralice commented 1 month ago

This was discovered while digging into #563 behavior on the website. Basically, if you run &sl, ⍢()1 or virtually anything that takes some time to run you can notice that the editor itself, other editor widgets, search bar etc. are all inaccessible. Potential solutions include using the browser's async runtime to run other things while the code is running, or using WASM threads.

kaikalii commented 1 month ago

The normal threading APIs are not available in WASM. The Uiua runtime is not async, and I won't make it.

Therefore, the only way to fix this is with web-workers. The Worker api does not let you pass an arbitrary closure, and working with it from Rust is weird and complicated.

If you would like to prevent long hangs, reduce the execution limit in the pad settings, or use the native interpreter.