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Ask HN: What language do you like to see compiling into WebAssembly?
WebAssembly gives you an entirely new perspective for writing applications. What language do you like to see compiled into WebAssembly and Why? If it is already compiling into WebAssembly what is your favourite feature in it.
- pmontra 7y agoAnything with a garbage collector. I don't want to manage memory manually anymore. But why are you asking?
- sendilkumarn 7y agoWhat if a tool does memory management? To understand what is the general opinion and who wants to use it.
- billconan 7y agoQBasic, it was part of my childhood memories, I want it to have a new life.
- echeese 7y agoYou could use DOSBox for that: https://archive.org/details/msdos_qbasic_megapack https://archive.org/details/msdos_qbasic_megapack
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- amirouche 7y agoScheme, there chibi-scheme that compiles to wasm. My favorite feature is that it is very easy to express (html (code "in s-expr")). On the bad side, the interaction with JavaScript side is kind of pain. I did not figure out (nor tried whatsoever) to create a (general?) message passing kind of facility, that would allow me to do both DOM manipulation and XHR.
- zzo38computer 7y agoWebAssembly with macros.