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assemblyscript
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Let's Write a Malloc
Incidentally, it’s also what AssemblyScript uses: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/s...
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Gentle Introduction To Typescript Compiler API
Use it as a Front-End for other low-level languages.
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TypeScript Is Surprisingly OK for Compilers
> MHO typescript could just cut loose from its javascript compatibility. Why not compile it to wasm instead of transpiling it to javascript?
Check out AssemblyScript which is exactly that:
https://www.assemblyscript.org/
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Do you think typescript will ever have native support on brosers? Or we will have only the JS type annotations?
If you're curious, check out AssemblyScript, that might describe better what needs to be cut from TypeScript to make it possible to be compiled to WASM.
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Ezno's checker (a Javascript type checker and compiler written in Rust) is now open source
This is kinda the idea behind AssemblyScript, but IIRC it's more of a low-level typescript-ish syntax for WebAssembly.
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Is there a TypeScript to native compiler available?
https://www.assemblyscript.org/ maybe, but I'm not sure exactly what you need.
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Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world
Exactly, WASM was designed to be very very lightweight... you can put a lot of logic into a very small amount of WASM, but you need a good compiler to do that, or write WASM by hand to really feel the benefit. If you just compile Go to WASM, with its GC, runtime and stdlib included in the binary, yeah it's going to be pretty heavy... Rust doesn't have a runtime but as you said, for some reason, produces relatively large binaries (not the case only in WASM by the way). Probably, the best ways to create small WASM binaries is to compile from C or from a WASM-native language like AssemblySCript (https://www.assemblyscript.org).
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Dan Abramov responds to React critics
Well we have all the new ECMA standards that will be introduced in 5 years now. It's looking more like Java actually. its accessor and typing patterns match it the most. TypeScript has had quite the profound influence over future ECMA design. There is a not so well known project called AssemblyScript which I think has a promising future. Since future ecma standards closely resembles it and TypeScripts popularity has exploded I have a feeling it may become a real standard as well.
- AssemblyScript – TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly
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Do any engines or optimizers product TS-specific performance gains?
If you can guarantee that Typescript type hints will always be followed, you can turn it into more optimised code. Unfortunately, this means you've got to break Javascript semantics, so this means creating a new language, but people have done it. For example, AssemblyScript is a language that is designed as a strict subset of Typescript that compiles directly down to WebAssembly instead of Javascript, producing much more efficient code (most of the time). The tradeoff is that it has some slightly different semantics to Javascript, which means your existing codebase — and most of the libraries you use — will probably require some adaption before running correctly in AssemblyScript.
mun
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Hotswapping on native languages?
Mun is a statically typed language that compiles to machine code with LLVM, designed to be hot-reloadable: https://mun-lang.org/.
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Best language to use as a scripting lang for my rust app
Perhaps https://mun-lang.org? Might be a bit raw for your needs tho.
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Mun v0.4.0 released
But that’s not all! In total, this release contains 111 pull requests made by 5 of our community contributors and our two Core Team members & Dependabot. Thanks for having our back! For a full list have a look at the changelog, but the main improvements are:
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Mun v0.4.0: a statically-typed scripting language like Rust, written in Rust
Whenever I read about Mun, I'm always really, really intrigued… Until I remember that it currently has no string type and support for one is not currently planned. That's a bit of a shame, IMHO, because otherwise, this looks great!
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Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
There's mun [1] which is statically typed and AOT compiled.
1: https://github.com/mun-lang/mun
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Lessons from Writing a Compiler
From the reverse-dependencies of the salsa crate, the (archived) Lark compiler used it and the Mun compiler uses it.
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(async) Rust doesn't have to be hard
I notice that there are projects like mun trying to achieve a similar goal, but I'm kind of curious why they are not getting much attention from the community.
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Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
Have you heard of https://mun-lang.org/ ?
It's an embeddable scripting language with the goal of being a Rust-like language that supports hot reloading of functions AND data. To achieve the latter, it uses GC'ed memory such that memory can easily be mapped when the memory's type changes.
It's still in early development but maybe one day will serve your needs :)
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After working on our Godot + Rust game fulltime for one year it is now up on Steam
In terms of pure Rust engines/frameworks it seems the overall "problem" is lack of scripting, at least from my perspective. Mun seemed extremely interesting, but since even the project itself says "don't use it" I guess it's not a real option, and considering the amount of time we spent on the GDScript/Rust integration I'm a little worried that rolling something more custom would be even less efficient.
- Python interpreter written in rust reaches 10000 commits
What are some alternatives?
rust-ffmpeg-wasi - ffmpeg libraries precompiled for WebAsembly/WASI, as a Rust crate.
Rhai - Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust.
Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
rune - An embeddable dynamic programming language for Rust.
interface-types
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
reference-types - Proposal for adding basic reference types (anyref)
lobster - The Lobster Programming Language
ffmpeg.wasm - FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly
RustPython - A Python Interpreter written in Rust
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua