Add Web REPL using Emscripten about luau HOT 4 CLOSED

Oops this wasn't supposed to close. We now have a change that allows us to build Repl with Emscripten. I'm going to take a look at integrating this change into the build process, and figure out how to best integrate it with the web site.

The current top two contenders are:

• Maybe it's feasible to fetch the GH release artifact, directly or using something like jsdelivr
• Maybe we should make an npm package and just publish new versions of that package; unpkg can be used after that to source the file.

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Sounds good! Let me know what the end decision is.

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We've tested this lightly and it seems like it should be possible to just load the script from releases, e.g.

<script src="https://github.com/Roblox/luau/releases/download/<TAG>/luau.js"></script>

We could hardcode the tag to latest and make sure we move the tag with each release. Then we can simply upload build artifact with each release as we do with .zip archives for other artifacts.

This leaves the build setup. The only issue with the action that was in the earlier PR was the reliance on a third-party emsdk setup action. Is it possible to simply clone emsdk repository and run install & activate manually? (and maybe use GHA cache to speed this up, although maybe it's already pretty fast?)

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Oh, I should say that I don't know OTOH if the setup above works with .wasm but Emscripten has an option to embed ,wasm into .js so I'm assuming we could use that, which would also make it easier for us as it's just a single file we need to upload with releases.

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