What's an appropriate usecase for something like this?

[feynon]

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[xujuntwt95329]

Hi, the Wasmnizer-ts brings a subset of TypeScript to WebAssembly, it can be used in many areas as long as they need programming capabilities, some typical scenarios include:

• Application programming language for IoT devices
  Wasmnizer-ts leverage WasmGC, so we don't need to compile a whole language runtime inside WebAssembly, this will make the generated wasm module very small;
• Application programming language for function computing (FaaS)
  Wasmnizer-ts brings a new choice for developers;
• A more friendly WebAssembly targeted language for frontend developers
  Wasmnizer-ts doesn't introduce new language, it's just like a new backend for TypeScript, so frontend developer can use WebAssembly without learning C/C++/Rust;

[feynon]

The first two make sense, for use-cases outside browsers. The last one is somewhat blurry to me. I'm trying to understand it Why would I compile my code to WASM as a frontend developer for frontend usecases? What benefit does that give me when compared to the traditional way?

[xujuntwt95329]

In frontend projects, it's very common to build some CPU intensive logic to WebAssembly to get better performance (e.g. photoshop on the web).

Currently some statically typed languages such as C/C++/Rust can be successfully compiled to WebAssembly and work well, but the frontend developers are not familiar with these languages. Wasmnizer-ts provides a new choice: the frontend developers can write TypeScript and compiled to WebAssembly without learning a new language.

[feynon]

Got it, understood. Reminded me of this effort: Typescript as fast as Rust: Typescript++ by Zaplib people, which is discontinued now and discussed in their post mortem blog.

[legezam]

And how does it compare to AssemblyScript? I get that AssemblyScript is a different language ie it has its own compiler frontend as well, but it is also advertising itself of being a subset of TypeScript. Who and why anyone would choose wasmnizer-ts over AssemblyScript?