[HN Gopher] Wasp: WASM Programming Language
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Wasp: WASM Programming Language
Author : HerrMonnezza
Score : 69 points
Date : 2021-11-05 10:42 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| PotatoPancakes wrote:
| I love the idea of having everything in one language; dealing
| with just one thing instead of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
|
| But isn't that why everyone moved over to React, Angular, and
| Vue? It's nice that this is in WASM but honestly, I think I
| prefer React components written in TypeScript, and you can
| probably get that compiling to WASM with AssemblyScript.
|
| My two cents: this is a super neat hobby project! Probably won't
| ever make it to production anywhere though.
| emteycz wrote:
| No, JSX in AssemblyScript with the same dev experience is very
| far away.
|
| AssemblyScript is awesome, but right now it's more similar to C
| (with TS syntax) - it's not a TypeScript _runtime_ on Wasm, it
| 's a lowlevel language that looks nearly the same, that hopes
| to integrate Wasm GC etc when it comes (not yet).
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| Static TypeScript is much closer to regular TypeScript. But
| it doesn't support JSX either (and I while it might make
| sense with a custom pragma it certainly wouldn't make sense
| with React as a default).
| l30n4da5 wrote:
| My thoughts -- why does everyone have to come up with some new,
| _novel_ way of writing html?
|
| Looks like all the examples of wasp are just declarative objects
| and/or html, so not sure what wasp can do just from looking at
| those.
| Apofis wrote:
| Could've sworn we just did this:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29093482
| [deleted]
| jedisct1 wrote:
| Especially when it doesn't seem to bring anything over haml and
| pug.
| trutannus wrote:
| The most concise and precise way to write a language is
| generally in the language itself too.
| jedisct1 wrote:
| Doesn't really apply to HTML.
|
| Using indentation instead of XML-like opening and closing
| tags is way more concise, and encodes exactly the same
| information.
| zamadatix wrote:
| It's shorter, I don't know about concise though I suppose
| that's a subjective point anyways. While it's generally
| exactly the same there are some corner cases involving
| formatting rather than structure tags where it's not
| always 1:1.
| obiwan14 wrote:
| Thinking the same thing too. I find it a lot easier to read an
| HTML markup that a Wasp equivalent. Perhaps it's because I'm
| not a bard core dev, but reading all those {} is visually
| straining.
| harryvederci wrote:
| Indeed. We all know hiccup[0] style is the one true way to do
| it.
|
| [0] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
| danielvaughn wrote:
| For me it's about the fact that html was designed for documents
| with minimal interactivity, and while it's _possible_ to
| represent a highly interactive application in html, it poses
| several significant headaches for developers.
|
| I don't know the right solution, but it's clear that what we
| have right now doesn't suit our needs and make web development
| far costlier than it otherwise could be.
| p4bl0 wrote:
| The optional parentheses makes the syntax quite ambiguous.
| fibonacci it - 1 + fibonacci it - 2
|
| I'm only _hoping_ to understand what we have here because I
| already know what Fibonacci is.
| TheMatten wrote:
| This really just seems to be ML-style syntax - which is not
| ambiguous at all, it's just different from C-like languages
| (functions applied one argument at a time, with function
| application (empty space) having the biggest precendece)
| heinrich5991 wrote:
| In this case (and if it were interpreted as Haskell syntax),
| the above term would be wrong.
| postalrat wrote:
| Is it one of these? fibonacci (it) - 1 +
| fibonacci (it) - 2 fibonacci (it - 1) + fibonacci (it -
| 2) fibonacci (it - 1 + fibonacci (it - 2))
| marcosdumay wrote:
| On any sane ML-style language, it would be this:
| (fibonacci it) - 1 + (fibonacci it) - 2
|
| But I guess it isn't the case here, because that code
| doesn't make sense.
| tantalor wrote:
| The actual example in the readme is unambiguous:
| fibonacci(number - 1) + fibonacci it - 2
| cjohnson318 wrote:
| I'm not sure how wasp and angle interact. It looks like angle
| uses wasp, so is angle the important thing here? Or is wasp a
| standalone thing?
| ModernMech wrote:
| Seems there's a name collision, as I thought of this project when
| I read "Wasp programming language": https://github.com/wasp-
| lang/wasp
| tuddman wrote:
| and iota: https://github.com/iotaledger/wasp which while not a
| DSL, also compiles to WASM
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