[AS2WASM] Proof of concept code available

[Erik de Bruin <er...@ixsoftware.nl>]

Hi,

As the subject suggests, I can't make up my mind about a working title for
the WebAssembly effort.

But there is also some good news: I have now assembled a usable toolchain
to create and publish 'as2wasm' projects. As with any proof of concept,
there are serious caveats with regard to functionality... Mostly, there is
no actual transpiling yet ;-) But, to be fair, a week is not a lot of time
to get that 'detail' done ;-)

So, what is there to see? I have created a new, completely separate
transpiler client (WASTC), and all the code needed to build, package and
distribute it. It has currently one output for whatever you put in: a
functional wasm module that exports a simple 'add' function. The client has
a publisher that creates a viable project as output, compiling the fake
transpiled file into a valid binary file, together with a 'glue' file to
allow the .wasm file to load in the companion HTML file.

The core of the project is a couple of NPM files. The first one is part of
the framework and allows you to not only build the new transpiler client,
but also to create a new project skeleton. The second one is added to each
project skeleton and allows you to build and preview your project.

If you're interested, I have created a wiki page with setup
instructions[1]. There are a few nasty dependencies, please be patient and
keep in mind that WebAssembly is a very young technology and the tools are
few and far between.

So: with a bit of patience you can build and "use" as2wasm as if it were
fully functional. As long as you don't expect it to handle anything but the
project skeleton and that there is not yet real transpilation, just a
simple placeholder output to make everything work.

If you give it a spin, keep me posted and please don't hesitate to be blunt
and give me some (constructive) criticism.

Thanks and have fun!

EdB

1: https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/User-Manual-AS2WASM



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Re: [AS2WASM] Proof of concept code available

[Erik de Bruin <er...@ixsoftware.nl>]

Ok, I spend 'some' more time on the initial setup and managed to make it
much easier on the user. The toolchain setup is still a pain, I hope the
creators of 'wat2wasm' will start distributing binaries before we are ready
for a release. The compiler setup and building is improved and the AS
project directories should now be portable, without depending on Env vars
or complicated cli arguments...

Have a look at [1], and have fun!

Thanks,

EdB

1: https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/User-Manual-AS2WASM



On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Erik de Bruin <er...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As the subject suggests, I can't make up my mind about a working title for
> the WebAssembly effort.
>
> But there is also some good news: I have now assembled a usable toolchain
> to create and publish 'as2wasm' projects. As with any proof of concept,
> there are serious caveats with regard to functionality... Mostly, there is
> no actual transpiling yet ;-) But, to be fair, a week is not a lot of time
> to get that 'detail' done ;-)
>
> So, what is there to see? I have created a new, completely separate
> transpiler client (WASTC), and all the code needed to build, package and
> distribute it. It has currently one output for whatever you put in: a
> functional wasm module that exports a simple 'add' function. The client has
> a publisher that creates a viable project as output, compiling the fake
> transpiled file into a valid binary file, together with a 'glue' file to
> allow the .wasm file to load in the companion HTML file.
>
> The core of the project is a couple of NPM files. The first one is part of
> the framework and allows you to not only build the new transpiler client,
> but also to create a new project skeleton. The second one is added to each
> project skeleton and allows you to build and preview your project.
>
> If you're interested, I have created a wiki page with setup
> instructions[1]. There are a few nasty dependencies, please be patient and
> keep in mind that WebAssembly is a very young technology and the tools are
> few and far between.
>
> So: with a bit of patience you can build and "use" as2wasm as if it were
> fully functional. As long as you don't expect it to handle anything but the
> project skeleton and that there is not yet real transpilation, just a
> simple placeholder output to make everything work.
>
> If you give it a spin, keep me posted and please don't hesitate to be
> blunt and give me some (constructive) criticism.
>
> Thanks and have fun!
>
> EdB
>
> 1: https://github.com/apache/royale-asjs/wiki/User-Manual-AS2WASM
>
>
>
> --
> Ix Multimedia Software
>
> Jan Luykenstraat 27
> 3521 VB Utrecht
>
> T. 06-51952295 <06%2051952295>
> I. www.ixsoftware.nl
>



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Jan Luykenstraat 27
3521 VB Utrecht

T. 06-51952295
I. www.ixsoftware.nl