wat

wasm text formats

wast vs wat

https://webassembly.github.io/wabt/demo/wat2wasm/

The .wast extension is now used for the scripting language used by the WebAssembly test suite.

Binaryen wasm-as is ahead with implementing features like reference types, struct, array, stringref, i8, i16 wabt wat2wasm has better more forgiving syntax (no brackets needed) but understands no wasm 2.0

wabt wat2wasm --version 1.0.32 (mozilla …) binaryen wasm-as --version 111