The Wa Programming Language

No matter its technical merits, I would never use a programming language where I don&#x27;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;wa-lang.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wa-lang.org</a> - Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wa-lang&#x2F;wa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wa-lang&#x2F;wa</a> - Playground: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wa-lang.org&#x2F;playground&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wa-lang.org&#x2F;playground&#x2F;</a>

from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wa-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wa-lang.org&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; 自主可控、纯中文国内社区<p>&gt; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esp32.com&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esp32.com&#x2F;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ballercat&#x2F;walt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ballercat&#x2F;walt</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assemblyscript.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.assemblyscript.org&#x2F;</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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wa_(Japanese_culture)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;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?

So if there were a derivative (child) language, would it be called Ben Wa?