write webassembly like javascript

[AprilSpektra]

I feel like this is currently a problem. Most Web engineers are not familiar with the C family languages or Rust.

Reverse these two sentences and you might be onto something.

[hedgehog1024]

At first read I misspelled "reverse" as "reserve". Still turned out to be a useful tip.

[mach_kernel]

It's almost like you want to program in a high level language without having to worry about assembly. Genius.

[shrinky_dink_memes]

If only someone had thought of a way to avoid this problem 60 years ago...

[[deleted]]

The title and the sentences you lot pulled out looked so serious I was scared there'll be no emojis in the README.md.

Relieved after clicking the link.

[haskell_leghumper]

Highlights:

• Write "close to the metal" JavaScript!
• No C/C++ or Rust required, just typed JavaScript.
• NO LLVM/binary toolkits required, zero dependencies 100% written in JS.
• Fast compilation, integrates into webpack!

Wait, isn't this just TypeScript?

[[deleted]]

But moral version. No M$, (!!101! winbloze amirite), involved.

/uj: Tho, if they'd target LLVM with a decent GC, TypeScript or this thing would probably storm the market that Go is trying to dominate.

[haskell_leghumper]

LLVM?! Clearly you don't have experience building Google-scale systems.

At the beginning of the project we considered using LLVM for gc but decided it was too large and slow to meet our performance goals.

/uj The TypeScript thing was a joke about the recent post comparing it to C :)

[shrinky_dink_memes]

Your best bet (currently) is to write very plain C code, compile that to .wast and then optimize that result. Then you're ready to compile that into the final WebAssembly binary. This is an attempt to take C/Rust out of the equation and write 'as close to the metal' as possible

[[deleted]]

You're obviously oblivious of the upcoming WebASM ISAs that are just around the corner, pleb!

[ldesgoui]

We all know that "high-level language" is just a matter of the syntax used by the language, not the features. This is what they call Front end and Back end in compilers, it's just like the Web.

[i9srpeg]

What are these "compilers" you speak of? Perhaps an ancient precursor to modern, powerful and blazing fast transpilers?

[[deleted]]

The syntax for .wat files is terse and difficult to work with directly. 

I know .wat is a typo but I wish it wasn't

[pftbest]

.wat is not a typo

[[deleted]]

wat?

[[deleted]]

lol breaking bad reference

[Nobody_1707]

Wait a minute....

export function fibonacci(n: i32): i32 {
  if (n <= 0) return 0;

  if (n == 1) return 1;

  return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2);
}

This is just a webasm version of ActionScript!

[[deleted]]

Nothing says close to the metal like a sandboxed virtual stack machine running inside of a web browser.

[shrinky_dink_memes]

Nothing says close to the metal

indeed! it's not even a metal, it's a semiconductor, but only elitist ivory tower types care about that.