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by bikamonki 96 days ago
Do programmers actually write in wasm or automatic tools port/compile other languages to wasm?
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mikestaas 96 days ago
I wouldn't generally use hand coded WASM in production, but I've used it for educational purposes [1], and just because I'm perhaps a bit perverse [2][3] (3 includes some helper utilities in Common.ts).

[1] https://exercism.org/profiles/mikestaas/solutions

[2] https://github.com/mikestaas/wasmfizzbuzz/blob/main/fizzbuzz...

[3] https://github.com/mikestaas/walox/tree/main/src

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ivanjermakov 96 days ago
Ratio of web developers writing wasm is even less than ratio of system developers writing asm.
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kpcyrd 96 days ago
It's mostly Rust compiled to wasm binaries. There's also TinyGo and you could use C/C++ as well, but those 3 are a lot less common as far as I can tell.
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pjmlp 95 days ago
And Blazor, however I am not a big fan of it, it feels like an escape path for WebForm developers, and I surely don't want to debug that kind of code again, MVC is much better approach.
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