type-off VS wajic

Compare type-off vs wajic and see what are their differences.

type-off

Experimental TypeScript to JavaScript transformer in AssemblyScript based on Sucrase (by acutmore)

wajic

WebAssembly JavaScript Interface Creator (by schellingb)
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type-off

Posts with mentions or reviews of type-off. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-25.
  • From a WebAssembly Perspective
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2022
    > It isn't designed for or suitable for large projects.

    Why? The compiler itself is written in AssemblyScript and is capable of bootstrapping. The AS code base is quite large. In addition, there are other quite large projects. For example: https://github.com/acutmore/type-off. It's port of "sucrase" project (which functionally equivalent to esbuild or swc)

wajic

Posts with mentions or reviews of wajic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-29.
  • CoWasm: An alternative to Emscripten, based on Zig (demo: Python in the browser)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2022
    This is a slim alternative to Emscripten which focuses only on the C/C++ <=> JS interoperability part:

    https://github.com/schellingb/wajic

  • From a WebAssembly Perspective
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2022
    There's actually a super interesting project called wajic here:

    https://github.com/schellingb/wajic

    It's basically clang plus wasm-opt and some magic pixie dust which enables some of the most important features of Emscripten, but without the whole 'technology zoo' :)

  • Zig and WASM
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2022
  • WebAssembly and C++
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jun 2022
    There's now an interesting alternative to Emscripten called WaJIC:

    https://github.com/schellingb/wajic

    Enables most of the "Emscripten magic" (like embedding Javascript code into C/C++ files), but in a more bare bones package (apart from clang it essentially just uses the wasm-opt tool from Binaryen for post-processing).

    (to be clear, wajic has fewer out-of-the-box features than Emscripten, but it might be an alternative for very small projects which don't need all the compatibility shims which are coming with Emscripten, while still providing tools for calling between C/C++ and JS.

  • Show HN: How to compile C/C++ for WASM, pure Clang, no libs, no framework
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2022
    Since I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments yet, here's another interesting project in the general area of "WASM without Emscripten":

    https://github.com/schellingb/wajic

    This provides an alternative implementation of Emscripten's EM_JS() magic (embed Javascript snippets right in the C/C++ source code), but without the Emscripten SDK. It still needs some additional tools next to Clang, so it sits somewhere between "pure Clang" and "full Emscripten SDK".

  • Writing bindings to `dos-like` for Rust: some lessons learned
    5 projects | dev.to | 15 Mar 2022
    Alas, although there is WebAssembly support in the original dos-like, it is still not supported in the bindings for Rust. It would require a Rust toolchain to integrate with WAjic, which I am pretty much unfamiliar with. If you have any idea on how to achieve this, I would love to know.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing type-off and wajic you can also consider the following projects:

webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

multi-memory - Multiple per-module memories for Wasm

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

component-model - Repository for design and specification of the Component Model

cib - clang running in browser (wasm)

clang-wasm - How to build webassembly files with nothing other than standard Clang/llvm.

minimal-zig-wasm-canvas - A minimal example showing how HTML5's canvas, wasm memory and zig can interact.

v86 - x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

dos-like - Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms

memory-control - A proposal to introduce finer grained control of WebAssembly memory.

rusty-dos - A Rust skeleton for an MS-DOS program for IBM compatibles and the PC-98, including some PC-98-specific functionality