No matter its technical merits, I would never use a programming language where I don't know the dominant (natural) language of the community.<p>Every project has bugs and discussions how to work around them. This project has 12 Github issues. How severe are they? Will I hit them? I don't know because they are written in Chinese. (But this is not unique to Chinese, I feel the same way about French projects on OCaml and Coq).
Wa is a general-purpose programming language designed for developing robustness and maintainability WebAssembly software. Instead of requiring complex toolchains to set up, you can simply go install it - or run it in a browser.<p>- Home: <a href="https://wa-lang.org" rel="nofollow">https://wa-lang.org</a>
- Github: <a href="https://github.com/wa-lang/wa" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wa-lang/wa</a>
- Playground: <a href="https://wa-lang.org/playground/" rel="nofollow">https://wa-lang.org/playground/</a>
from <a href="https://wa-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">https://wa-lang.org/</a><p>> 自主可控、纯中文国内社区<p>> Independent and controllable, pure Chinese domestic community<p>Doing software projects for domestic and foreign users is extra work, and the community seems to fragment along language lines. For example: <a href="https://www.esp32.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.esp32.com/index.php</a><p>I guess a 纯中文国内社区 is one way to solve this, but then why post on hacker news? This seems contradictory.
At first glance it looks a lot like Go, but you can already compile Go to WASM I believe.<p>In which case I'm curious what are the differences or use case vs just using Go?
Wonder if this will pick up after Walt seems to have been abandoned in favor of AssemblyScript.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/ballercat/walt" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ballercat/walt</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.assemblyscript.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.assemblyscript.org/</a>
Apropos of approximately nothing, I had a hunch what this was about <i>and was completely wrong</i>!<p>The Hanzi had me going for about five seconds; they don't mean 和.<p>Anyway, if anyone <i>does</i> write a programming language with keywords and text in Kanji, let us know.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japanese_culture)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(Japanese_culture)</a>
When I saw the headline, I figured this was something out of the University of Washington, and therefore named after my home state of Washington. :)<p>It obviously is not. What does “wa” mean in Chinese? Or is it really just (w)eb (a)ssembly?