Will ECS/Jobs work with WebGL?

Just tried building to WebGL and the game built without error but did not run correctly.

I think that WebGL/WASM does not have a working native threading system yet, however the potential throughput of ECS even on a single thread could still make it useful for WebGL development.

Also wasn't there a demo of a micro version of Unity built on ECS that built to Web?

 

Threading in the browser is done via [webworkers] which is a part of the HTML5 specification which can run side by side with WebGL. It is supported on [most] browsers today. I'm sure Unity is working on getting that implemented.

There is a micro version of Unity aptly named Utiny in the works which does feature ECS to be the core part of it. It's targeted for games delivered through messaging apps. Theres more about that in [this] video.

 

I remembered in one of the talk they say they are working on utilizing ES8's shared memory feature to do something something about thread/jobs. Can't remember which talk but that reassure they are definitely working on it. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer

 

"Shared memory can be created and updated simultaneously in workers or the main thread" yeah sounds like NativeArray alright . Thanks for that

 

Any progress here? Daym webgl is dead rip~

 

Old thread from 2018 -> 2019.1 - Unity Forum

 

@deus0
WebGL is not going anywhere anytime soon, but I expect WebGPU to eventually replace it some unknown time in the future.

 

It's been dead since I adopted a multi core cpu lol. I am needing that multithread support for it to work with ECS!