[Question] Add New Language to WebAssemblyStudio

[vonwenckstern]

Hi,

your tool is very nice.
Our SE chair has a Simulink alternative language (EmbeddedMontiArc) which also compiles via Emscripten to WebAssembly.

We have some demo sites about WebAssembly files we created with our tooling:

1. https://demo.embeddedmontiarc.com/selfdrivingcar/simulatorWithTrajectory.html
   (or without trajectory: https://demo.embeddedmontiarc.com/selfdrivingcar/)
2. https://embeddedmontiarc.github.io/EMAM2Wasm/

We also have several videos about our tooling:
http://www.se-rwth.de/~vonwenckstern/#videos

@mbebenita Is there a possibility to integrate our C&C language alternative into your project?
Our compiler tool-chain chain as well as all of this source code is open source at Github and also well tested.
Here is the main project for you: https://github.com/EmbeddedMontiArc/EMAM2Wasm

I think we both could benefit from each other -- we could give you a nice car tutorial where one of my master students @strepkov is working on.
On the server side we would need Java additionally to clang and emscripten.
But if the server capacity is a problem, we could also try to compile our byte code to JavaScript via cheerpJ (but this may cause some performance issues), or we can also use our server.

Best,
Michael

[yurydelendik]

@vonwenckstern see similar thread at #191 (comment)

[brody4hire]

@vonwenckstern see similar thread at #191 (comment)

(walt support)

and couple more:

• https://github.com/MichaReiser/speedy.js (supported by Assembleash)
• https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor (support C#/Razor/.NET)

What about some kind of plugin or language extension API, like what they use on the Atom editor or VS Code?

P.S. A couple more resources that may be interesting:

• Suggestion: Compilation targets other than JavaScript microsoft/TypeScript#9202 - discussion of TypeScript targets other than JavaScript
• https://github.com/rsms/wasm-util
• additional: https://medium.com/web-on-the-edge/exploring-compilation-from-typescript-to-webassembly-f846d6befc12

[vonwenckstern]

What about some kind of plugin or language extension API, like what they use on the Atom editor or VS Code?

That would be really nice, than also others could use your existing tooling here.

[mbebenita]

@vonwenckstern we're definitely open to adding more languages, however we don't really want to support too many backend services as part of this project. If you provide the API endpoints you can just have WebAssemblyStudio send the project there and get back the compiled .wasm file.

[vonwenckstern]

@mbebenita Thanks, we are writing right now a server which compiles our language to WASM and JS and send the result back to our client as zip file.

If you can tell us what kind of API endpoints you want, then we program our server so that it has exactly the endpoints of WebAssembly frontend.

[yurydelendik]

If you can tell us what kind of API endpoints you want, then we program our server so that it has exactly the endpoints of WebAssembly frontend.

We did not have a standard for endpoints yet and trying to document that atm. You may look into something along the lines of https://github.com/yurydelendik/clang-heroku-slug/blob/master/app/src/build.js#L11 or something even more simpler.