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wasm2go

A Wasm to Go translator

2Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
244GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

A Wasm to Go translator

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-02-26 16:47:09 UTC to 2026-10-12 21:17:42 UTC.

0123452026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 commentsJun 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2026

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Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC514
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC404
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20262026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20262026-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Oct 20262026-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Not very deep. Go generates large Wasm modules, because it bundles its goroutine scheduler, garbage collector and standard library into the module. Translating that back to Go will give you a pretty big Go file. Go is "known" for being fast to compile, but that huge Go file will take (at least?) as long to compile as compiling the Go toolchain does. wasm2go is best used on moderately sized modules (like SQLite). Last I heard, the person who tried to translate Perl got a 80MB Go file that was taking them 20min to compile. https://github.com/ncruces/wasm2go/discussions/15
In WASM is not quite a stack machine
Shameless plug… compiling it to Go is a great option too: https://github.com/ncruces/wasm2go I've used it to translate SQLite (with a few extensions) and, that I know of, it's been used (to varying degrees of success) to translate the MARISA trie library (C++), libghostty (Zig), zlib, Perl, and QuickJS. More on-topic, I use a mix of an unevaluated expression stack and a stack-to-locals approach to translate Wasm.
In WASM is not quite a stack machine

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