asm-dom VS webassembly-lua

Compare asm-dom vs webassembly-lua and see what are their differences.

asm-dom

A minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA (Single page applications) (by mbasso)

webassembly-lua

Write and compile WebAssembly code with Lua (by ysugimoto)
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asm-dom

Posts with mentions or reviews of asm-dom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
  • Blazor United - When it ships it would be the most glorious way to do web with .NET
    5 projects | /r/programming | 25 Jan 2023
    Aside from Blazor there's already some other projects like Yew (rust), seed (rust), asm-dom (C++) and vugu (Go) and more that have decent followings and activity. A lot more (especially managed languages) are waiting for some features to come online like wasm GC and host bindings (direct wasm access to browser apis which includes the DOM). It'll take a bit of time, but it'll get there eventually.
  • WebAssembly and C++
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022
    FWIW if you look around, C++ and Rust libraries for DOM manipulation exist (I haven't searched for other languages which compile to WASM):

    https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom

    https://github.com/sycamore-rs/sycamore

    I think solving the problem of DOM access on the library level is exactly the right way to tackle this problem. The library user don't need to care about specific WASM features, and the library implementation can be simplified when those WASM features become available (and also implement per-browser fallback paths)

  • I really don't get it.
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 2 Jun 2022
  • Fengari – Lua for the Browser
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2022
  • At least it's not java
    1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 19 Nov 2021
    Wasm is already around for a while. There are probably some libs to access the dom and frameworks around that wrap the js part completely Found this after a short search https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom Also Blazor seems to work fine, but didn't really test it beside playing around a little bit with it
  • alia - A Declarative UI Library for C++
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 11 Mar 2021
    Thanks for the kind words! :-) Yeah, you've got a good description of the use case for it. You give me too much credit though. :-) It's built on top of Emscripten, which handles a lot of the low-level bindings between C++ and the browser. Also, asm-dom helps fill in a big gap between C++ and the DOM.

webassembly-lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of webassembly-lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-20.
  • Fengari – Lua for the Browser
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2022
    Not sure why'd you think this would have anything to do with WASM, the homepage is really clear what this is: "Fengari is the Lua VM written in JavaScript. It uses JavaScript's garbage collector so that interoperability with the DOM is non-leaky.". WASM wouldn't use JS's GC, nor would provide interop with the DOM, so for the stated goals of this project, WASM would be a non-starter.

    There is prior art for Lua -> WASM in case you're interested in that: https://github.com/ysugimoto/webassembly-lua

What are some alternatives?

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nodegui - A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org

Fennel - Lua Lisp Language

skia-opengl-emscripten - DEPRECATED! ~~C++ HTML/CSS UI. Supports subset of HTML/CSS. Based on chromium/cobalt.foo without JavaScript overhead. Uses SKIA 2D graphics library. Can be used to build UI for cross-platform app, game or website. Can support browser as HTML5 web framework or WebGL UI renderer.~~

fengari - 🌙 φεγγάρι - The Lua VM written in JS ES6 for Node and the browser

snabbdom - A virtual DOM library with focus on simplicity, modularity, powerful features and performance.

cobweb - COBOL to WebAssembly compiler

ariana-lua - Plotting functions with Lua!

wasmr - Execute WebAssembly from R using wasmer

sdk - The Dart SDK, including the VM, dart2js, core libraries, and more.

lunasvg - lunasvg is a standalone SVG rendering library in C++

luajit2 - OpenResty's Branch of LuaJIT 2