cognitive psychology. PhD 
Has anybody used webassembly as a compiler target for pet languages? I’m struggling with the text format- it’s a very strange mix of standard linear-format assembly and block structure.
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@wcrichton did this come up in your PL class? Curious to see what others thinkShow this thread
I had students write WASM directly, so different situation. My understanding is that as a compile target, you're expected to use language-specific bindings to WASM, similar to LLVM, e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasm-c-api/blob/master/include/wasm.h …
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But I think the text format isn't too bad! It's weirdly forgiving, but I would just think about it as Lisp/S-expressions.
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Hmm- the main problem is that it doesn't really work like s-exps because there's no sequencing operator- you simply write a \separated (c1 c2 c3 c4 ...) for a sequence of commands, interspersed with *structured* control blocks. I'd rather have it one way or the other, is all.
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Ah! I see. Also, that makes more sense for the intended use.
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