wasm2lua vs raw-wasm

wasm2lua

wasm2lua: converting WASM into Lua (by SwadicalRag)

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raw-wasm

Raw WebAssembly demos (by binji)

WebAssembly Binary tinycode WASM

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wasm2lua		raw-wasm
	Project
1	Mentions	3
177	Stars	417
-	Growth	-
3.8	Activity	5.6
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
WebAssembly	Language	WebAssembly
MIT License	License	MIT License

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wasm2lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of wasm2lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

[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.

raw-wasm

Posts with mentions or reviews of raw-wasm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.

Web assembly book?
4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 21 Apr 2023
Smolnes: A NES Emulator In
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2022

Big fan of this author's work.
They have a Gameboy emulator written in C, which can be compiled to WASM and run in the browser.
https://github.com/binji/binjgb
I learned a lot from the code.
Also I love this project with a bunch of demos in hand-written WebAssembly Text (WAT) format, which is like low-level Lisp that works only with raw memory, numbers, and minimal syntax.
https://github.com/binji/raw-wasm
Then I discovered the same author is quite active in the WebAssembly ecosystem, including specs and tooling. Fascinating stuff!
https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt
Raw WebAssembly Demos
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wasm2lua and raw-wasm you can also consider the following projects:

assemblyscript - A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.

binaryen - Optimizer and compiler/toolchain library for WebAssembly

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

xxhash-wasm - A WebAssembly implementation of xxHash

Wasynth - WebAssembly to Lua translation library and tool

cpl-webassembly - Small WebAssembly exercise session for the KU Leuven course Comparative Progamming Languages

wasker - Wasm compiler for running Wasm on your favorite kernel

w2c2 - Translates WebAssembly modules to portable C

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

smolnes - NES emulator in <5000 bytes of C

binjnes - NES emulator implemented in C, that also runs in the browser

wasmi - WebAssembly (Wasm) interpreter.