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life.zig, a small Conway's Game of Life simulator
The Zig approach is what I am mostly interested in, as the Zig compiler includes shims for targeting WebAssembly. Since Zig can be used as a compiler for C/C++, this means you could skip the Emscripten part entirely and incorporate a build.zig file into your C/C++ project, allowing you to mix C/C++ libraries into a Zig project targeting a WebAssembly backend fairly easily.
Implementing said things, however, can be tricky, and the community is kind of spread all over the place. Rust is popular, but involves a lot of crates and boilerplate code being strapped on. C/C++ is an easy way of targeting WASM using Emscripten, and I'm sure it works well, but I feel it fits in the same place as Rust where a lot needs to be strapped on to bring you up to production speed.