walt support

[cztomsik]

Hello, I'm curious if you're open to other input sources. I'd be especially interested in walt which aims at being as close to js as possible, unlike AssemblyScript which builds on top of TypeScript.

[yurydelendik]

It's might be possible. We need to find a person who will be responsible for its support. (In case of AssemblyScript, @dcodeIO is helping us)

@cztomsik will you be the best person to assume this responsibility?

[dcodeIO]

Just as another side note: I am wondering a bit about the "TypeScript, that is JavaScript with types, isn't as close to JavaScript as X, that is also JavaScript with types" side note, because, well, adhering to the ECMAScript spec while adding types is exactly the definition of TypeScript - or did I miss something?

[cztomsik]

I think the best person would be @ballercat himself but I guess I could help too. Can you provide some details about what has to be done?

@dcodeIO you're not wrong, there is a lot of competition in "typed js" right now but I think it's not soon enough to pick a winner:

• TypeScript/AssemblyScript (js with types but I'd already consider it a different language)
• walt (webassembly written with js syntax)
• reasonML (different language inspired by js, no wasm yet)
• babel with flow (possibly with many other plugins, no wasm yet)
• closure (oldest but it's still used, no wasm yet)

[dcodeIO]

Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps I'll still have to get used to the competition aspects that lead us here.

[ballercat]

Hey, this is a good idea.

walt already has it's own off-brand playground https://ballercat.github.io/walt/ but this would be much nicer. Can already run in a browser so should be possible to integrate and I would be happy to help if the project is receptive to the idea.

RE: other things/language competition

There isn't a finite amount of success to go around. I think what @cztomsik is highlighting is a difference in approaches taken. Which is good. WebAssembly is touted as the big equalizer for the "languages of the web" so I think it's a net possitive that there are different interpretations of what that should look like.

Anyway, I appreciate the shout-out and I hope we can collaborate more in the future.

[mbebenita]

if the project is receptive to the idea

@ballercat we're very receptive to the idea. The goal of WebAssembly.Studio is to create a platform where we cultivate as many ideas around how to produce and consume .wasm as possible.