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:zap: Walt is a JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly text format :zap:

15 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 6 stories, 9 comments · first 2017-12-16 · latest 2025-06-29

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    Ask HN: Languages Designed for WASM?
    story by 90s_dev · 2025-06-29 · 12 comments
  2. …I'd expect there to be more experimental small languages targeting WASM directly at least. [0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt
    comment by vanderZwan · 2023-10-16 · in Guile Hoot v0.1.0 Released
  3. Wonder if this will pick up after Walt seems to have been abandoned in favor of AssemblyScript. [0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt [1] https://www.assemblyscript.org/
    comment by vanderZwan · 2022-11-11 · in The Wa Programming Language
  4. …Speedy: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript https://github.com/FantasyInternet/poetry https://github.com/ballercat/walt https://github.com/MichaReiser/speedy.js Unlike Rust, which has excellent support for wasm output but…
    comment by apo · 2019-07-15 · in Ask HN: Are there any new languages designed specifically for webassembly
  5. …out some simple WASM code without needing anything except a modern browser is quite powerful. [0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt [1] https://dzone.com/articles/webassembly-web-workers [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/…
    comment by vanderZwan · 2019-01-28 · in SCRIPT-8: An 8 Bit Fantasy Computer Programmed with Javascript
  6. …bringing in unwanted baggage, but still a lot more convenient to write in than the .wat format. [0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt
    comment by vanderZwan · 2018-12-03 · in UBlock Origin 1.17.4 released
  7. …file and try out the package in your browser in a similar way to how you use `three.min.js`. [0] https://github.com/ballercat/walt/blob/master/packages/walt-...
    comment by gchq-7703 · 2018-10-11 · in Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
  8. It doesn't translate to wasm text format, but to wasm binary format. The walt-compiler ( https://github.com/ballercat/walt/tree/master/packages/walt-... ) readme shows how to use it to compile text into a a buffer which you can write to…
    comment by simen · 2018-10-11 · in Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
  9. Yes, that's the compiler: https://github.com/ballercat/walt/tree/master/packages/walt-... It's written in JS so you'll need node to run it, and npm is a package manager for node so you should use that to install and call it. If you just…
    comment by manigandham · 2018-10-11 · in Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
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    Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly
    story by jedisct1 · 2018-10-10 · 99 comments
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    Walt: JS-like syntax for WebAssembly
    story by markdog12 · 2018-10-02 · 0 comments
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    Walt is a JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly text format
    story by patrickaljord · 2018-01-12 · 0 comments
  13. …JavaScript then is this repository an example of JavaScript being replaced by.... JavaScript? https://github.com/ballercat/walt
    comment by austincheney · 2017-12-20 · in The Death of Flash and Rewriting 1.4M Lines of Code
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    Show HN: Walt is a JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly text format WIP
    story by kiyanwang · 2017-12-18 · 0 comments
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    Walt: A JS-Like Syntax for Web Assembly
    story by ascorbic · 2017-12-16 · 1 comment