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Ask HN: Are there any new languages designed specifically for webassembly
It seems like webassembly in the browser is different enough of an architecture and use case that it makes sense that people would be designing languages designed from the bottom up to be compiled to it, but I can’t seem to find any.
- apo 7y agoHave you seen AssemblyScript, Poetry, Walt, and Speedy: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/FantasyInternet/poetry https://github.com/FantasyInternet/poetry https://github.com/ballercat/walt https://github.com/ballercat/walt https://github.com/MichaReiser/speedy.js https://github.com/MichaReiser/speedy.js Unlike Rust, which has excellent support for wasm output but wasn't created with wasm in mind, the above languages appear to have been created specifically with wasm as the native compile target. Also, there's an excellent curated list of languages that compile to wasm: https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
- menduz 7y agohttps://github.com/lys-lang/lys https://github.com/lys-lang/lys
- JamesBarney 7y agoThe language isn't specifically built for web assembly but the framework is. But it allows the writing C# a traditionally server side language to run in the browser. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/blazor-now-in-official-preview/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/blazor-now-in-official...