PicoBlaze Simulator in JavaScript

[bennyboy]

Free hosting is bullshit.  I hate it.

What makes you say so?

I say so because free hosting of sites involving data access (uploading or downloading media, etc.) are horribly slow and unreliable-- or, I should say, they were when I attempted to put my first small business website online. The experience of using "free" sites was so traumatizing that I pulled out my wallet and signed up for a Microsoft VM-- quite expensive, but fast as hell and always works perfectly. It's different when you are a student, though. I get it.

So, how is Firebase different from GitHub Pages? I watched the video and I failed to understand what does one gain by using FireBase instead of GitHub pages for WebAssembly.

I couldn't tell you. As I said, I've seen these things around, but have not used them, as I use Azure services exclusively.

I already have a static-file hosting service, that is GitHub Pages, I want to build and deploy a back-end, so that people can share and comment on their own PicoBlaze programs.

You don't need to be stuck with one app or one framework or physical system.  If you want something more active, then use a static site (i.e. the one you already have) and write an API in whatever language, using whatever framework, you want, for the dynamic content-- so long as your free host will allow you to pass data in and out, you can bypass all the ads and other BS.

A typical API will be very small: usually taking in JSON, parsing it, and making a SQL query to save or update data-- or making a SQL query and sending it out as JSON.  Your main site doesn't really care where that JSON data is coming from, as they are decoupled.