I’ve been working on an experiment to implement parts of Elm in WebAssembly. I’ve discussed it with a couple of people, but wanted to share around a bit more and maybe spark some discussions.
This repo implements parts of elm/core in C rather than JS, and compiles it to WebAssembly. It includes:
- Byte level implementations of all of Elm’s data types
- First-class functions (currying, higher-order functions, etc.)
- The basic arithmetic operators (
+,-,*,/) - Record updates and accessors
- A working garbage collector designed for Elm
Demos (very low level and basic ones), and docs, are linked in the README.
I’m also working on a fork of the Elm compiler but I don’t really have anything worth sharing on that just yet.
By the way, I should probably also be clear that this is an experimental hobby project by some random guy. There’s nothing official about it!
Let me know what you think!