Using WASM with C lang and support for Android and other questions.

[Joe23232]

Hi, I have some questions regarding Armory:

1. I want to use C with WASM. Is WASM native performance or is there a decrease in performance?
2. Does the game engine have built in ECS? If not is it currently being worked on? If it is being worked on, would people's existing game code would change?
3. Using WASM C, does it support Android currently? If not would it be supported in the near future?

[MoritzBrueckner]

Hi, I converted this issue into a discussion as it is not a bug report or feature request.

1. WASM runs in a virtual machine and does not run at native speed, although optimized WASM code should run with near-native performance in theory (at least that's what its developers say). If you search for benchmarks you will find that it may look different in practice though, but it's still faster than JS.
2. No, there is no true ECS in Armory even though traits work in a roughly similar way. I don't think that there is any current progress on this, you can find the related issue here.
3. I don't think so, at least not without compiling Krom for Android (Armorpaint does that btw, and I think there are some plugins for it that are written in WASM). I could be mistaken though.