web-devkits/Wasmnizer-ts

What is the difference between this and AssemblyScript？

beautiful-boyyy opened this issue · 2 comments

beautiful-boyyy commented

I just started learning webassembly, and I feel that AssemblyScript and this project seem to be doing the same things. What's the difference?

xujuntwt95329 commented

Hi, AssemblyScript compiles a TypeScript-like language to WebAssembly, it doesn't allow dynamic language features such as any, union and so on, the objects are inside wasm linear memory, managed through a garbage collector built into WebAssembly

Wasmnizer-ts compiles a subset of TypeScript to WebAssembly, leveraging WasmGC proposal, the objects are in WasmGC heap, managed by the underlining wasm runtimes, and a series of APIs (libdyntype API) are introduced to work as an escape hatch for dynamic objects.

beautiful-boyyy commented

Hi, AssemblyScript compiles a TypeScript-like language to WebAssembly, it doesn't allow dynamic language features such as any, union and so on, the objects are inside wasm linear memory, managed through a garbage collector built into WebAssembly

Wasmnizer-ts compiles a subset of TypeScript to WebAssembly, leveraging WasmGC proposal, the objects are in WasmGC heap, managed by the underlining wasm runtimes, and a series of APIs (libdyntype API) are introduced to work as an escape hatch for dynamic objects.

I get it, thanks.