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dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly

continuing with the DNA theme… In Catalyst, a WebAssembly implementation of the OpenSmalltalk virtual machine, there are three linguistic levels in play: Smalltalk, JavaScript (JS), and WebAssembly (WASM). Smalltalk is our primary language, JS is the coordinating language of the hosting environment (a web browser), and WASM is a high-performance runtime instruction set to which we can compile any other language. In a previous article, I wrote about automatic translation of JS to WASM, as a tempo...

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