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ruby.wasm is a collection of WebAssembly ports of the CRuby.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2022-04-07 · latest 2026-01-09

Mentions per year 5 mentions · busiest year 2022 (2)
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  1. …the hype phase. And then ... nothing really materialized. If you look at, for instance, ruby WASM, https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm - there is virtually zero real documentation. Granted, this is a specific problem of ruby, and japanese…
    comment by shevy-java · 2026-01-09 · in What happened to WebAssembly
  2. I'd not heard of Virgil before but Ruby itself can run on WASM: https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm (That's not strictly "designed for" as in the question but I thought it might be interesting all the same).
  3. Arguably, VB6 and Ruby have a pretty similar syntax. And Wasm is first class in the Ruby build farm. https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm
  4. Alternative idea: keep running the same Ruby code. - https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm (compile Ruby to WASM) - https://mame.github.io/emruby/ (example of Ruby compiled to WASM) - https://opalrb.com/ (compile a subset of Ruby to JS) This…
    comment by exikyut · 2022-05-04 · in Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code
  5. …= '#{luckiness}'") `); }; main(); </script> <body></body> </html> [0] https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm/tree/main/packages/npm-pac...