Category:Onyx (wasm)

Onyx (wasm)
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.

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See Also:	Onyx (wasm) on the HOPL

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Onyx (wasm).

Onyx is a WebAssembly first language. Onyx aims to make it as easy as possible to start working with WebAssembly. For that reason, Onyx is very well suited for the niche kinds of projects that require using WebAssembly.

WebAssembly is growing in popularity outside of the browser because of projects like Wasmer, Wasmtime, and WasmEdge that make it easy to run WebAssembly in a controlled environment. These "controlled environments" could be game engines, where WASM is used as a "script" system; cloud functions, where WASM is used to respond to requests; plug-in systems for editors or tools.

Onyx is an imperative language. You write a sequence of statements that should be executed in the specified order to evaluate your program. This is my preferred style of programming so it is what I made Onyx.

However, I do enjoy the simplicity of a functional language. The idea of expressing a computation at a higher level appeals to me. Instead of writing a bunch of for-loops, you express what you want to happen, instead of how it should happen.

For this reason, Onyx does have functional-inspired features that make that style of programming accessible.