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cretz / asmble

asmble

Compile WebAssembly to JVM and other WASM tools

11Distinct people
31Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
658GitHub stars
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Compile WebAssembly to JVM and other WASM tools

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year31 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-04-17 17:41:47 UTC to 2024-08-30 23:56:12 UTC.

0510152017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 3 submissions, 8 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1138
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> At best you'll get a Rust'ish WASM, Python'ish WASM, PHP'ish WASM, etc I agree with the latter two due to runtime uniqueness, but not so sure it holds for Rust. Since C FFI has become the defacto WASM standard (with higher level interop coming as the article suggests), some low-overhead langs like Rust can be reasonably used elsewhere via WASM (though in most cases, you'd use them as native libs if you had the option). Essentially it comes down to two things: How much of the WASM conformance is language-specific at compile time (e.g. for Go, stack resumption is manually built causing bloated WASM), and how much overhead does WASM interop cause at runtime (e.g. can it use the string interface type instead of converting to what it considers a string in local memory and what are the tradeoffs of each approach). If your language has a low W
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ASM impedance mismatch at compile time and runtime, like Rust, it is a decent candidate for a WASM target. If your runtime has a low WASM impedance mismatch (e.g. the browser, native, and to some extent the JVM), it is a decent candidate to run that other decent-candidate WASM code without a huge overhead. I've run Rust on the JVM [0], C in the browser, etc with decent performance because of those characteristics. 0 - https://github.com/cretz/asmble/tree/master/examples/rust-re...
In WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things

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