wa VS walt

Compare wa vs walt and see what are their differences.

wa

The Wa Programming Language: Simple, maintainable, compiled language for developing WebAssembly software (by wa-lang)

walt

:zap: Walt is a JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly text format :zap: (by ballercat)
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wa walt
3 2
728 4,636
2.7% -
9.6 1.8
3 days ago over 1 year ago
Go JavaScript
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 MIT License
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wa

Posts with mentions or reviews of wa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-11.

walt

Posts with mentions or reviews of walt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-10.
  • Guile Hoot v0.1.0 Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023
    This is so cool!

    > Self-contained toolchain: No emscripten, binaryen, wabt, etc.

    Tangent: I am sincerely surprised by how few languages seem to do this. I know of Walt and... that's it (although I am sure there are more). I'd expect there to be more experimental small languages targeting WASM directly at least.

    [0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt

  • The Wa Programming Language
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wa and walt you can also consider the following projects:

wenyan - 文言文編程語言 A programming language for the ancient Chinese.

wasmedge-quickjs - A high-performance, secure, extensible, and OCI-complaint JavaScript runtime for WasmEdge.

TinyGo - Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.

wa-sqlite - WebAssembly SQLite with experimental support for browser storage extensions

artichoke - 💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust

oboe - Oboe is a C++ library that makes it easy to build high-performance audio apps on Android.

awesome-wasm-langs - 😎 A curated list of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly

cheerp-meta - Cheerp - a C/C++ compiler for Web applications - compiles to WebAssembly and JavaScript

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

webassemblyjs - Toolchain for WebAssembly