Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format

by keepamovin • 2 years ago

101 16 2 years ago

cnity• 2 years ago

If you combined this with JIT compilation and a macro system you could make a pretty nice performant browser-ready lisp that produces small code.

Navarr2• 2 years ago

Is this pronounced Wax-a-lot-l or Wax-o-lowt?

andyferris• 2 years ago

I presume it rhymes with the fish.

yencabulator• 2 years ago

Axolotl are salamanders.

tyre• 2 years ago

In Nahuatl it would be “wa-sha-lot” iirc. The l is silent when the end of the word ends in “tl” and x is a “sh” sound.

Levitating2• 2 years ago

Yes, see wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl

Navarr2• 2 years ago

That's what I was trying to reference, but I left the X in the English "Wax" [wax][alotl].

I am very curious what the author intended though

samatman• 2 years ago

Not silent, but not either of the L sounds in English, /l/ as in lever and and /ɫ/ as in trouble. It's the ll in Welsh, /ɬ/ in IPA. If you pronounce it /t/ you'll be closer than /tɫ/, like bottle.

asveikau• 2 years ago

Fun fact, x is an sh sound because that's how it was in medieval Spanish around the time Spaniards got there and wrote down the words. Around this same time is when the Old Spanish sh sound was shifting to the value it has in the word México and later a spelling reform changed it to J or g before i and e (except eg. in a bunch of mexican place names which retrained old spelling)

I believe in other Iberian languages such as Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, the sh sound is spelled with X.

bArray• 2 years ago

I read it as "wax - o - lotool". A little difficult to pronounce in any case.

maxmcd• 2 years ago

The demo page is great. Really nice to see such rich and fun examples.

katspaugh• 2 years ago

Can anyone explain what this adds on top of wax?

k__• 2 years ago

Directly compiling to WASM.

niutech• 2 years ago

It's crazy that even the simplest Hello World translates to 1191 lines of WebAssembly text format (without comments and empty lines). Compare it to only 18 lines with AssemblyScript: https://github.com/torch2424/wasm-by-example/blob/master/exa...

Waxolotl – A small language that compiles to WebAssembly text format

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