WebAssembly and Elm

[Lucas_Payr]

Have you searched for WebAssembly on discourse? This has been discussed a lot.

Quick and short answer:

1. No plans for now
2. good question. From what I know the language is currently designed in such a way, that hopefully nothing needs to change once we can compile to WebAssembly.

For further reading, check out @Brian_Carroll’s work writing a compiler for WebAssembly:

Basic demo of Elm in WebAssembly

Hi folks! Since my last post a month ago, I’ve reached the next milestone in my WebAssembly project and wanted to share. I now have a working demo app! It’s a super-simple “countdown” app, designed to show a few main things: Elm app code “compiled” to WebAssembly (well, hand-translated to C and compiled to Wasm) A simple Cmd effect (Process.sleep) A simple VirtualDom view with an onClick callback This was just enough to force all the major technical issues to do with the “platform”. Most of…