w2c2 vs wasm2lua

w2c2

Translates WebAssembly modules to portable C (by turbolent)

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wasm2lua

wasm2lua: converting WASM into Lua (by SwadicalRag)

WASM Wasi Transpiler Compiler WebAssembly Lua Luajit wasm2lua

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w2c2		wasm2lua
	Project
9	Mentions	1
668	Stars	177
-	Growth	-
8.6	Activity	3.8
16 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C	Language	WebAssembly
MIT License	License	MIT License

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w2c2

Posts with mentions or reviews of w2c2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.

Build your own WebAssembly Compiler
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023

For AOT, the simplest approach, that actually produces the fastest native code, is to naively translate WASM opcodes to C.
This is for example what W2C2 does: https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2
Show HN: RustPython for FreeDOS with W2c2
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023

This uses [w2c2](https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2) to convert RustPython,
DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023
Running Rust code on Plan 9 using webassembly
1 project | /r/plan9 | 22 Feb 2023

Using a modified version of the w2c2 wasm->C89 translator, I was able to run Rust code on 9front!
Rust on macOS 9
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2023

There's not much data in the performance section of the front-page readme of the repo, but the one bullet point there seems promising:
> Coremark 1.0: ~7% slower than native [0]
[0] https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2#performance
W2c2: Translates WebAssembly Modules to C
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2023

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2021
W2c2: Translate WebAssembly Modules to C
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
I'm not sure what this is, but I'm sure I want to find out. WASM2C.. Is it for me...
1 project | /r/cprogramming | 23 Dec 2021

wasm2lua

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[ComputerCraft] Is it possible to run Doom on CC?
1 project | /r/feedthebeast | 15 May 2022

You could try converting WASM to Lua using something like wasm2lua but a lot of work would still be required to get the display/sound/input working inside CC.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing w2c2 and wasm2lua you can also consider the following projects:

raw-wasm - Raw WebAssembly demos

assemblyscript - A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.

react-native-webassembly - ⚛️ 🏎 WebAssembly for React Native powered by JSI.

wazero - wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers

RustPython - A Python Interpreter written in Rust

Wasynth - WebAssembly to Lua translation library and tool

jerryscript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.

VectorVisor - VectorVisor is a vectorizing binary translator for GPUs, designed to make it easy to run many copies of a single-threaded WebAssembly program in parallel using GPUs

hermit - Actually Portable WebAssembly compiler toolchain for self-contained cross-platform binaries

wasker - Wasm compiler for running Wasm on your favorite kernel