Hi! I'm building yet-another-attempt-of-latex-in-the-browser: https://vadimkantorov.github.io/busytext/busytex.html. So far I managed to build xetex+bibtex8.

I was thinking to somehow try to "compile" biber into WebAssembly. I was considering two options:

1. perlcc to generate C code
2. WebPerl to replace PAR packing

What would be your thoughts on feasibility of these two variants? Have you tried using perlcc on biber? Are there any "nasty" required dependencies?

Does biber require popen / signals / web requests for normal functioning? If not, it probably can be made working in WASM.