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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by mananaysiempre on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:44AM (#41117665)
It’s advertised as that, and it’s a cool project, but while it’s definitely a statically typed language that reuses TypeScript syntax, it’s not clear to me just what subset of the actual TypeScript type system is supported. That’s necessarily bad—TypeScript itself is very unclear about what its type system actually is. I just think the tagline is misleading.
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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by eyelidlessness on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:08PM (#41123480)
Probably a better way to think about AssemblyScript is first as a DSL for WASM, and second as providing a subset of TS syntax and authoring semantics to achieve that. The type system is closer to TS than the syntax and semantics. At least that was my experience when I explored it some time back.
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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by mananaysiempre on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @08:18PM (#41124950)
*not necessarily bad, d’oh
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Re:Porffor: A from-scratch ahead-of-time JS engine by saghm on Thursday August 01, 2024 @12:10AM (#41126071)
The tagline on the site seems to be " TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly", which seems pretty clear to me that it's not pretending to be a strict subset or anything.
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