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I think it's more of an (impressive) mental exercise - if the code can be made straightforward enough to run on javascript, the future applications can only grow from there.

It's the Android encoder written in c++ cross compiled to JavaScript, not much of a mental exercise. Not to say it's not cool :)

They have a hand-coded javascript version in progress too:

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway/tree/master/Play

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