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I'm blow away at what Devs are able to do within a browser nowadays.
You could have done the same with plugins in the past.
I’m very mixed about WASM. It’s clearly a very cool technology, and enables cool things by allowing native performance without needing multi-platform support.

But at the same time, it provides a vector for foreign, non-free software to run on my computer. Every time someone sends me a Google doc blocking printing/copying (on _my_ computer!), it makes me want to join a monastery.

Should I be getting more than .2 FPS?
I'm not even getting that - its stuck at: 10:26:18.027 Downloaded SPI flash: 16777216 bytes 10:26:18.027 [config] icount: off 10:26:18.028 [status] Loading QEMU WASM module (17MB)...
Probably could be made faster by:

- using native exception handling

- getting rid of asyncify (but it would require JSPI)

See my experiments with TempleOS here: https://zb3.me/qemu-wasm-test/

08:46:37.125 [err] [fps] 4.0 (12 frames in 3.0s) 08:46:40.225 [err] [fps] 1.0 (3 frames in 3.1s) 08:46:41.224 FIRM | * ASSERTION FAILED: ASSERTN 08:46:41.443 [err] DEBUG post-reset: halted=0 stopped=1 R13=0x20002170 R15=0x080001b4 thumb=1 08:46:42.123 [err] clktree_recalc_output_freq: Clock PCLK1 output frequency (32000000 Hz) exceeds max frequency (30000000 Hz).

found an assertion just by clicking up/down. doesn't seem too stable.

Any way to load a local watch-face? Am hoping there is and I didn't see it. This would be very helpful for testing.
Can already see a nice web based AI app builder on the way, also can be used to quickly try apps before pushing to the device as interactive app store.

Please watch out some qemu targets for Cortex m0 or m3, increasing ram from linker out of supported ranges will cause random crashes. Would love to contribute if you are looking for people to crash some issues.

Awesome effort btw.

Really slow FPS for me (macOS, Firefox). Not really getting past 1fps...
Getting 2 fps on my iPhone SE 2020.. it’s nearly usable!
Love the idea, would be great to see a modes to switch to circular interface for the Time Round 2. Definitely lots of potential for rapid iteration on new watch faces and apps!