Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly
29 Jul, 2025 TLDR: we explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy. For a quick demo, check out https://github.com/r-wasm/ws-proxy Porting R to WebAssembly Webr is a port of the R language and its package ecosystem to WebAssembly. Many R packages rely on well-known C/C++ libraries to do the heavy lifting, and fortunately most of these libraries can be built with emscripten without too much trouble. However