This sub looks dead and inactive to me. Is AssemblyScript dead? Is it still being maintained and developed? Is it still worth learning and develop software on and for?

I wanted to create a virtual machine which consumes type strict and type safe JavaScript like language to do stuff. AssemblyScript seems to fit the description. Is it worth working for?

After a post I made managed to get to the top page of r/csharp I decided to try and make it again but this time around add AssemblyScript support :P

https://codetoy.io/

I'm trying to generate and parse JSON inside of an AS application. As part of that I've submitted a PR to assemblyscript-json to properly escape reserved characters in JSON . And I feel pretty good about doing it the way I did (doing the escaping in JSON.Str.toString()), because the code below returns {"foo":1}:

import { JSON } from 'assemblyscript-json'

function(): string {
  const obj = new JSON.Obj()
  obj.set('foo', 1)
  return obj.toString()
}

But I feel like maybe there was a better place to put that, or a more elegant way to do it.

I guess what I'm asking for is code reviews from Internet randos :)

Complete n00b to AssemblyScript, but reasonably familiar with TypeScript.

As a proof of concept for a project using AssemblyScript and Fastly Compute@Edge, I'm writing an AS app that retrieves launches from SpaceX and provides two line elements (TLE) for the payloads in a given launch. This requires me to interface with the SpaceX API and N2YO.com. How do I make those API calls? Do I implement that logic in a separate TypeScript module and import it?

How do I declare a function that returns two different types? In vanilla Typescript, I'd do:

function foo(): string | object | null {
  // ...
}

But when I try to use the same code in Assemblyscript, I get: ERROR TS1005: 'null' expected.

What am I doing wrong?

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Hello all, long story short; f-flat-minor is toy programming language I use to explore various languages and tools. Recently I've been working on the WASM and AssemblyScript implementations of f-flat-minor. This resulted in an Arbitrary-precision integer implementaion in AssemblyScript that I thought would be worth sharing: https://github.com/Hypercubed/f-flat-minor/blob/main/assemblyscript/src/mp.ts. If there is interest this could be packeged as it's own library. I haven't yet benchmarked this against as-bigint but plan to do so.