Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to C on the Web with This C to WASM Build Server and CDN
A Portable C ➤ WASM CDN
Wasup is a build server and CDN that compiles C programs to WebAssembly without requiring local installation of development tools. Users can submit C code and receive compiled WASM binaries ready to run in the browser… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. C on the Web with This C to WASM Build Server and CDN launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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We’ve reached a major milestone in making any software run with WebAssembly. Thanks to the newest release of Wasmer (4.4) and the Wasmer JS SDK (0.8.0) ...
2024 · wasmer.io · its alternatives →
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A little help for programmers, who wants to run C/C++ code in the browser. (This is my second attempt to show it, first time I got banned bcoz of my personal page domain, I don't really understand it why is is suspicious.)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a lightweight web framework in c. Contribute to ashtonjamesd/lavandula development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In the [first article in this series](<https://wasmer.io/posts/wasm-as-universal-binary-format-part-1-native-executables>) we demonstrated how you can c...
2022 · wasmer.io · its alternatives →
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Custom web server for my blog. Contribute to cozis/BlogTech development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Web49: WebAssembly Interpeter. Contribute to FastVM/Web49 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I usually build web games in C++, but using Emscripten always felt like overkill for what I was doing. I don't need full POSIX emulation or a massive standard library just to render some stuff to a canvas and handle basic UI. The main thing I wanted to solve was the JS/WASM interop bottleneck. Instead of using the standard glue code for every call, I moved everything to a Shared Memory architecture using Command and Event buffers. The way it works is that I batch all the instructions in WASM and then just send a single "flush" signal to JS. The JS side then reads everything directly out…
Jan 2026 · its alternatives →
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A modular web framework for C, inspired by kernel modules. Dynamically upload and compile C code at runtime to build REST APIs, WebSocket services, and more. Includes support for JSON (Jansson), SQLite, OpenSSL, and streaming large data efficiently. - joexbayer/c-web-modules
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One of the most challenging projects of my life :)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Run WebAssembly made for outside the browser, inside the browser.
2022 · runno.dev · its alternatives →
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a very (x 10) basic wasm console. Contribute to rajatjindal/wasm-console development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Programming language that compiles into a x86 ELF executable. - riicchhaarrd/ocean
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · blog.yifangu.com · its alternatives →
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A little web server written in C for Linux. Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy. Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I built a runtime to isolate untrusted code using wasm sandboxes. Basically, it protects your host system from problems that untrusted code can cause. We’ve had a great discussion about sandboxing in Python lately that elaborates a bit more on the problem [1]. In TypeScript, wasm integration is even more natural thanks to the close proximity between both ecosystems. The core is built in Rust. On top of that, I use WASI 0.2 via wasmtime and the component model, along with custom SDKs that keep things as idiomatic as possible. For example, in Python we have a simple decorator:…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CJIT▲83CJIT started as a hobby project around Fabrice Bellard’s tinyCC and slowly grew into something much more practical. It is now a small portable C compiler and runner that works across Linux, macOS, and Windows, can self host, and is packaged as a single executable. What mattered most to me was keeping the barrier to entry low. You can take one small binary, drop it onto a system, and compile or run C code using the libraries already available there, without setting up a full toolchain or installing a large stack of dependencies. I find that useful for quick prototyping, testing, auditing,…
2024 · dyne.org · its alternatives →
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A simple way to write standalone C programs for i386 - luke8086/boot2c
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I make a no-CGO Go SQLite driver, by compiling the amalgamation to Wasm, then loading the result with wazero (a CGO-free Wasm runtime). To compile SQLite, I use wasi-sdk, which uses wasi-libc, which is based on musl. It's been said that musl is slow(er than glibc), which is true, to a point. musl uses SWAR on a size_t to implement various functions in string.h. This is fine, except size_t is just 32-bit on Wasm. I found that implementing a few of those functions with Wasm SIMD128 can make them go around 4x faster. Other functions don't even use SWAR; redoing those can make them 16x faster.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Compile WebAssembly to JVM and other WASM tools. Contribute to cretz/asmble development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · timdaub.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to get more familiar with C programming, *nix socket programming and C compilation, so I wrote this "web" ""server"". It's running on a tiny SBC in my office, and there's as little as possible between you and it. Happy for you to try and break it, hopefully with something more interesting than a DoS though :) Please let me know if you find any issues.
2025 · unsafehttp.benren.au · its alternatives →
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A self-hostable Wasm sandbox for JavaScript workers.
Jun 2026 · kyushu.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We (pdubroy & marianoguerra) just launched an online book called WebAssembly from the Ground Up. It's an online book to learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript. This is the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago. Unlike many WebAssembly resources that focus on use cases and tooling, we wanted a deep dive into how Wasm actually works. We focus on the core of WebAssembly: the module format and the instruction set. We think the low-level details — the "virtual ISA" — are the most interesting part, and we had the crazy idea that writing a compiler is the best way to learn it.…
2025 · wasmgroundup.com · its alternatives →
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