graaljs VS cowasm

Compare graaljs vs cowasm and see what are their differences.

graaljs

A ECMAScript 2023 compliant JavaScript implementation built on GraalVM. With polyglot language interoperability support. Running Node.js applications! (by oracle)

cowasm

CoWasm: Collaborative WebAssembly for Servers and Browsers. Built using Zig. Supports Python with extension modules, including numpy. (by sagemathinc)
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graaljs cowasm
17 8
1,623 465
1.0% 1.5%
9.9 3.9
4 days ago 4 months ago
C++ C
Universal Permissive License v1.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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graaljs

Posts with mentions or reviews of graaljs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.

cowasm

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowasm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.
  • bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2023
    For fun, I ported much of BSDutils to WebAssembly. Code [1] and live demo [2]. It was much, much easier porting BSDutils than GNU coreutils, since the source code is often much smaller, and hence easier to read and understand with simpler dependencies.

    [1] https://github.com/sagemathinc/cowasm/tree/main/core/coreuti...

  • Wasi-JS: a JavaScript library for interacting with WASI Modules
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2023
  • active now: Commits ยท sagemathinc/cowasm
    1 project | /r/browserPOSIX | 4 Dec 2022
  • SQLite 3.40.0 with WASM Support
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2022
    For what it is worth, I also care about building this with zig. https://github.com/sagemathinc/cowasm/blob/main/packages/sql...
  • Adding Python support using Pyodide to our low-code framework which supported only JavaScript.
    2 projects | /r/Python | 4 Nov 2022
    If it fits your needs and is working, then fine. Please remain aware of a different approach to what pyodide is doing based on perceived weaknesses in pyodide.
  • CoWasm: An alternative to Emscripten, based on Zig (demo: Python in the browser)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2022
    CoWasm supports WASI right now via this library https://www.npmjs.com/package/wasi-js, which I actually develop as part of CoWasm . One unusually thing I did, which goes beyond what emscripten does, is I implemented a quite a bit of posix functionality, often by writing extension code to nodejs and calling it from Javascript, because there's a lot of POSIX that Node.js doesn't expose. This only works on Mac and Linux and is also available standalone in this library https://www.npmjs.com/package/posix-node, which is implemented in Zig. You can get a sense of the scope of POSIX functionality that goes beyond what WASI defines here: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cowasm/tree/main/packages/ker...

    One motivation for doing this is to try to get the full Python test suite to pass, including all the functionality that involves subprocesses, posix calls, etc. I've only got to about 85% at this point. It can be a ton of tedious work, but at least Zig helps impose some discipline (e.g, it doesn't let you ignore handling errors until later), and makes it easy to test compilation for all supported targets on every change (due to excellent cross compilation support).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing graaljs and cowasm you can also consider the following projects:

TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

coreutils - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/coreutils

deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

memfs - JavaScript file system utilities

deno-exec

coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

zx - A tool for writing better scripts

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

truffleruby - A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM.

unionfs - Use multiple fs modules at once

graalpython - A Python 3 implementation built on GraalVM

bsdutils - Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD