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Starting the process to developing a Webmail client for Maildir systems #548

Closed philiprhoades closed 11 months ago

philiprhoades commented 11 months ago

People,

I didn't get a response to my previous question but I received a reply from an email to a developer and he suggested starting with C (which I have some old experience with) or Rust (which I have no experience with), converting the C program to WASM and then converting that WASM program back to WAT for studying to improve my understanding of WAT - which sounds like a good idea. However, my longer-term aim is a WASM Webmail client - so my question is now:

Is it going to be possible to convert a WASM program that makes use of WASI back to WAT? My preference ATM is to just learn to program in WAT . .

Thanks,

Phil.

sbc100 commented 11 months ago

wat is not really a practical language in which to author real programs. Think of it more as an assembly language.

Its easy to convert any wasm file to wat using tools such as wat2wasm (part of wabt) or wasm-dis (part of binaryen).

abrown commented 11 months ago

I completely agree with @sbc100 that you probably want to use a higher-level language (but... if you're looking for a challenge, it is possible to handcraft WAT youself: https://github.com/binji/raw-wasm).

philiprhoades commented 11 months ago

Think of it more as an assembly language.

But I always wanted to learn ASM x86 but never got around to it!

Its easy to convert any wasm file to wat using tools such as wat2wasm (part of wabt) or wasm-dis (part of binaryen).

Yep, doing that with WASMs from little C programs now to see what they look like . .

if you're looking for a challenge, it is possible to handcraft WAT youself:

Thanks!

sbc100 commented 11 months ago

Can we close this issue?

philiprhoades commented 11 months ago

Can we close this issue?

Sure.