TinyGo and WebAssembly?

[justinclift]

@aykevl Out of curiosity, are you familiar with WebAssembly (wasm)?

Kind of wondering how feasible it would be, to add wasm as a target for TinyGo compilation.

With TinyGo generating to LLVM, and LLVM able to compile wasm... could that be a useful avenue to explore for golang/go#27766 ?

[aykevl]

I've used WebAssembly a little bit in the past, and a WebAssembly target is certainly something I'd like to see at some point. But of course, there are so many things I would like to see implemented in the compiler, and this is just one of them.

A WebAssembly target is certainly doable. Requirements to implement one are roughly similar to the ones listed in Adding a new architecture. In short, it involves creating targets/wasm.json with target "wasm-none-none-wasm" and probably some runtime changes. Perhaps also compiler changes, but I don't know yet.

See this HN post for more discussion.

[justinclift]

Awesome. Thanks @aykevl. 😄

[aykevl]

See #45.

[justinclift]

Oh Wow!

@aykevl You are awesome. 😁