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A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.

41 mentions on Hacker News by 35 people: 4 stories, 37 comments · first 2017-09-06 · latest 2025-09-17

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  1. I really hope this spurs AssemblyScript to just port to WASM GC: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/issues/2808 There's comments in there about waiting for a polyfill, but GC support is widespread enough that they should…
    comment by spankalee · 2025-09-17 · in WASM 3.0 Completed
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    Ask HN: Languages Designed for WASM?
    story by 90s_dev · 2025-06-29 · 12 comments
  3. I've been following AssemblyScript for years but I can't recommend it until they figure out closures: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/issues/798
    comment by throwitaway1123 · 2024-06-26 · in The many faces of undefined in JavaScript
  4. ….com/AssemblyScript/website/blob/main/src/.vue... Here's how the compiler is built to target the web. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/s... How fun! This inspires me to explore further what I could build with it.
    comment by lioeters · 2023-12-25 · in Understanding every byte in a WASM module
  5. Incidentally, it’s also what AssemblyScript uses: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/s...
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2023-11-26 · in Let's Write a Malloc (2014)
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    AssemblyScript – TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly
    story by andsoitis · 2023-04-22 · 0 comments
  7. …support for interpreted languages: JS, Python, Ruby, ... * - Closures are still not supported: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/issues/798
    comment by ctvo · 2022-12-01 · in Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
  8. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/pull/2439 Best I could find
    comment by 22c · 2022-08-23 · in Assemblyscript Removes WASI Support
  9. …You can even do many more things if you export `Reflect` to WebAssembly: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/t... Reference Types are available almost everywhere already (In Safari will be available after 15.
    comment by maxgraey · 2021-08-21 · in FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
  10. …Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten Anybody used or have opinions about AssemblyScript? https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript >AssemblyScript compiles strictly typed TypeScript (basically JavaScript with types) to…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2020-12-19 · in AssemblyScript: A variant of TypeScript targeting WebAssembly
  11. …is dead. Looks like assemblyscript compiles "a strict variant of TypeScript" directly to Wasm: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript This is pretty close to "running" TypeScript.
    comment by tantalor · 2020-11-24 · in Tips for Performant TypeScript
  12. …the web and found this: https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs ...which led me to this: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript Its description is awesome: "Definitely not a TypeScript to WebAssembly compiler :rocket:"…
    comment by benatkin · 2020-09-21 · in V8 Release v8.6
  13. There is https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript . It's not using llvm, but it's compiling a subset of typescript to webassembly.
    comment by karyon · 2020-05-14 · in Deno 1.0
  14. …to WebAssembly https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15187961 https://github.com/AssemblyScript https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://docs.assemblyscript.org/
    comment by DonHopkins · 2020-04-28 · in What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
  15. A similar alternative (a TypeScript subset that compiles to WASM): https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by s_y_n_t_a_x · 2020-04-02 · in TypeScript to C++
  16. …projects that take a subset of TypeScript and run using different implementations. One example is https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript However, being a subset, the available functionality will be a lot more limited.
    comment by matharmin · 2020-02-12 · in Ask HN: TypeScript, native compiler/VM implementation?
  17. Can it help with compiling Typescript to WASM? i.e. in https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by touchpadder · 2019-12-20 · in Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C
  18. Here's another one (more mature, I'd say) https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by cztomsik · 2019-09-04 · in Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
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    AssemblyScript: A TypeScript to WebAssembly Compiler
    story by fanf2 · 2019-09-04 · 0 comments
  20. …You also can't just compile any Javascript to WASM, the closest thing to this is AssemblyScript: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript This compiles a subset of Typescript to web assembly. And you have to take "subset" seriously…
    comment by fabian2k · 2019-08-24 · in JavaScript: The Modern Parts
  21. Have you seen AssemblyScript, Poetry, Walt, and Speedy: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/FantasyInternet/poetry https://github.com/ballercat/walt https://github.com/MichaReiser/speedy.js Unlike Rust,…
    comment by apo · 2019-07-15 · in Ask HN: Are there any new languages designed specifically for webassembly
  22. …We also have a slack channel you can reach out and get invited to (see the wiki sidebar): https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/wiki Thanks again!
    comment by torch2424 · 2019-06-03 · in Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten
  23. …usually when people are interested in the language, we usually direct them to the "n-body" example: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master... . Which kind of looks more typescript-y :) Also, just to stay on topic, I…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2019-06-03 · in Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten
  24. Anybody used or have opinions about AssemblyScript? https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript >AssemblyScript compiles strictly typed TypeScript (basically JavaScript with types) to WebAssembly using Binaryen. It generates lean and…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2019-06-03 · in Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten
  25. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by marton78 · 2019-04-26 · in Flutter desktop shells
  26. …Is this compatible with any WASM-compliant language, or just the ones listed? EG AssemblyScript: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript I'm looking forward to seeing some benchmarks comparing native binaries with the same program…
    comment by spease · 2019-02-26 · in Universal Binaries Using WASM
  27. …allows to transpile typed javascript to WebAssembly [1] https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit [2] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by entelechy · 2019-01-20 · in RE:DOM – Tiny turboboosted JavaScript library for creating user interfaces
  28. …that, but I've never seen it being used for big projects, since it doesn't support the "any" type. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master...
    comment by fermuch · 2019-01-19 · in Future of TypeScript on ESLint
  29. …faster it gets, though currently I'm trying to get it running in WebAssembly via AssemblyScript ( https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript ), which has been promising. I'm curious about the about the Babel performance comparison.…
    comment by alangpierce · 2018-12-23 · in Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler
  30. …usually when people are interested in the language, we usually direct them to the "n-body" example: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master... . Which kind of looks more typescript-y :) Also, just to stay on topic, I…
    comment by torch2424 · 2018-10-11 · in Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
  31. …TypeScript. That said, the familiar tooling, editor support, are wins over other WASM options. [0] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master...
    comment by sramam · 2018-10-11 · in Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
  32. What's the difference between this and something like AssemblyScript?: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript EDIT: I see that this project actually existed slightly before AssemblyScript. Still seems like two very similar…
    comment by PaulBGD_ · 2018-10-10 · in Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
  33. …talking about at the end there. It is essentially TypeScript syntax that compiles to WebAssembly. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by ryanworl · 2018-08-27 · in Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It
  34. …existing project to compile TypeScript to wasm (I haven't used it, not sure about its file size): https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by Touche · 2018-07-20 · in The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals
  35. …[0]). Someday you may be able to recompile that TS project and get substantial gains for free. [0] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by anderspitman · 2018-06-26 · in Our Vision for Rust and WebAssembly
  36. …rather than having to switch to a completely new language to get predictable fast performance. [1] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript
    comment by alangpierce · 2018-02-19 · in Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
  37. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master... This doesn't look like traditional TypeScript to me. The explicit loads/stores give away the whole trick. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master... And…
    comment by Jasper_ · 2017-12-19 · in Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
  38. Yet it is already happening. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/01alchemist/TurboScript
    comment by pjmlp · 2017-12-19 · in Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
  39. …cool to see this type of thing. I wonder if it could possibly be compiled using AssemblyScript ( https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript ) and executed as wasm for even more performance gains? A similar idea that I've thought of…
    comment by alangpierce · 2017-09-26 · in Fast ECMAScript Parser – Alternative to Acorn / Esprima
  40. This links to a GitHub organization page, which is spectacularly uninformative. https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript is a better link for this submission, I think. You get a README.md, at least.
    comment by cwyers · 2017-09-06 · in AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly
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    AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly
    story by indescions_2017 · 2017-09-06 · 73 comments