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by marianoguerra 271 days ago
In case you are interested I wrote a minimal OOP runtime in wasm-gc (using wasm text format) here: https://marianoguerra.org/posts/bootstrap-post-collapse-oop-...

I also wrote a forth in wasm by hand here: https://github.com/marianoguerra/ricardo-forth

And a wasm compiler that fits in a tweet: https://wasmgroundup.com/blog/wasm-compiler-in-a-tweet/

I'm also the co-author of a book that shows you how to write a compiler that targets wasm for a small languaje using js: https://wasmgroundup.com/

Here's a direct link to the wasm text format for the OOP and forth implementations:

- https://github.com/marianoguerra/mclulang/blob/main/wat/fatt...

- https://github.com/marianoguerra/ricardo-forth/blob/master/s...
2 comments
RodgerTheGreat 271 days ago
The Birth & Death of JavaScript wasn't talking about WASM, it was talking about Asm.js, which crucially differs from WASM by being a backwards-compatible subset of JavaScript amenable to JIT compilation. The goals of these standards look similar if all you care about is transpiling c and running it on a browser, but Asm.js worked everywhere from day zero modulo performance; WASM continues to be a moving target.
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bloppe 271 days ago
Wasm has long supported everything you could do with asm.js. But wasm is about much more than C to browser. That's why it's still evolving.
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leptons 271 days ago
Asm.js runs on the main thread, WASM runs in its own thread.
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alex7o 270 days ago
Not exactly true WASM compilcation is in a different thread, but the execution happens on the same thread as JS if you don't do any webworker stuff.

Edit: https://apryse.com/blog/how-to-enable-webassembly-threads

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CyberDildonics 271 days ago
a minimal OOP runtime

What does this mean?

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marianoguerra 270 days ago
in the LISP 1.5 Programmers's Manual there's a single page that defines eval/apply in lisp code. I was exploring something similar for OOP, what's the minimal set of features needed to bootstrap objects and method dispatch.
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_0ffh 270 days ago
You might find "Open, Extensible Object Models" by Ian Piumarta and Alessandro Warth interesting.

Found a link: https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2006003a_objmod.pdf

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