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Re:Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care? by pjmlp on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:58AM (#15960205)
Yet it is already happening.

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

https://github.com/01alchemist/TurboScript

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Re:Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care? by Jasper_ on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:07AM (#15960263)
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 it requires JS twice the size of the TypeScript to actually use the output generated by AssemblyScript. I personally don't see WASM a valid target for AssemblyScript for another year or two, until either the gc or host-bindings proposals lands.

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