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Kirtee Prajapati
Kirtee Prajapati

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GO with WASM

Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

It is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.

Environment Setup

1. Get Golang

2. Get Tinygo

Note Before installing be carefull abouth the version range because
Tinygo requires golang version 1.15 through 1.17

For Linux user:

$ sudo snap install --classic --channel=1.15/stable go
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Verify Installations

$ tinygo version
$ go version
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3. Get Wasmtime.dev

Once done with the installation let's move towards the codding part.

# Create directory Ouside_Browser
$ mkdir Outside_Browser
$ cd Outside_browser

# Initialied go directory 
$ go mod init Outside_Browser
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This creates a file named go.mod

# Create main.rs file
$ touch main.rs

# open your fav IDE I switched to VSCode.
$ code .
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Paste the below Go code inside main.go.

package main
import "fmt"
func main(){
   var n int
   fmt.Print("Enter a number: ")
   fmt.Scanf("%d", &n)
   for i:=0; i<=n; i++{
      for j:=0; j<n-i; j++{
         fmt.Printf(" ")
      }
      for k:=0; k<i; k++{
      fmt.Printf("*")
   }
   fmt.Println()
}
}
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Compiling the Go code

  1. Compile Using Go
go run main.go
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  1. Compile to WASM
$ tinygo build -wasm-abi=generic -target=wasi -o main.wasm main.go
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This creates a file main.wasm

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  1. wasm runtime
$ wasmtime main.wasm
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So simple right ..!!

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