Mastodawn

I wonder if anyone has made a low-level #Lisp that is specifically designed to be semantically close to #WASM code, so that it compiles to be very very efficient (kinda like how Lua is really fast because it’s very semantically similar to C code, which is what its interpreter is written in)

like WASM already reads kinda like a Lisp to me, and I bet that would run crazy fast

(I’ve been tempted to do this several times I’m ngl. I think I want to learn WASM one of these days. sadly most of the “learn WASM” tutorials are more like “learn how to compile some shitty language like C++ to WASM”)

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Felix 🇺🇦🚴‍♂️🇪🇺

@kasdeya If you like low-level languages, the official WebAssembly text format (.wat) is actually already an S-expression language.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Guides/Understanding_the_text_format

Understanding WebAssembly text format - WebAssembly | MDN

To enable WebAssembly to be read and edited by humans, there is a textual representation of the Wasm binary format. This is an intermediate form designed to be displayed in text editors, browser developer tools, and other similar environments. This article explains how the text format works in terms of its raw syntax, and how it relates to the underlying bytecode it represents and the wrapper objects that represent Wasm in JavaScript.

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kasdeya 1d ago

@leobm yess - that’s actually exactly why I’m interested in WASM in the first place. it really makes me want to make my own Lisp that compiles to it, just because of how cool it would be to write Lisp S-expressions that turn into WASM S-expressions