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po1nttoday at 12:22 PM1 replyview on HN

WASM sounds great in theory but it's so much pain in practice. Once as a presentation demo I made it run on ESP32 but in the process of digging deep into runtimes and WASM spec, I wanted to disclose pros vs cons and it killed my presentation.

I realize wasm wasn't designed for embedded but it made me open my eyes to it's intricacies like minimum memory allocation, why not native 1 byte variables?


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pjmlptoday at 12:50 PM

If you want bytecode for embedded see stuff like BASIC Stamp or Parallax Propeller.

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