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- NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR="https://nodejs.org/download/v8-canary/"
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=================
[](https://travis-ci.org/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript)
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**AssemblyScript** compiles strictly typed [TypeScript](http://www.typescriptlang.org) (basically JavaScript with types) to [WebAssembly](http://webassembly.org) using [Binaryen](https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen). It generates lean and mean WebAssembly modules while being just an `npm install` away.
Try it out in [WebAssembly Studio](https://webassembly.studio)!
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Motivation
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-> Being able to write C-performance code in TypeScript feels so good – Ari on [Slack](https://assemblyscript.slack.com) (Apr 19, 2018)
+> AssemblyScript was frictionless. Not only does it allow you to use TypeScript to write WebAssembly, [...] it also produces glue-free WebAssembly modules that are very small with decent performance. – Surma, [Replacing a hot path in your app's JavaScript with WebAssembly](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/hotpath-with-wasm) (Feb 16, 2019)
> Perhaps the fundamental issue [to get a small .wasm file] is that JavaScript is the only language for which the Web runtime is a perfect fit. Close relatives that were designed to compile to it, like TypeScript, can be very efficient as well. But languages like C, C++, Rust, and so forth were not originally designed for that purpose. – Alon Zakai, [Small WebAssembly Binaries with Rust + Emscripten](https://kripken.github.io/blog/binaryen/2018/04/18/rust-emscripten.html) (Apr 18, 2018)
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> I do think [compiling TypeScript into WASM] is tremendously useful. It allows JavaScript developers to create WASM modules without having to learn C. – Colin Eberhardt, [Exploring different approaches to building WebAssembly modules](http://blog.scottlogic.com/2017/10/17/wasm-mandelbrot.html) (Oct 17, 2017)
-> AssemblyScript was frictionless. Not only does it allow you to use TypeScript to write WebAssembly, [...] it also produces glue-free WebAssembly modules that are very small with decent performance. – Surma, [Replacing a hot path in your app's JavaScript with WebAssembly](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/hotpath-with-wasm) (Feb 16, 2019)
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diff --git a/examples/game-of-life/index.html b/examples/game-of-life/index.html
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Conway's Game of Life - AssemblyScript
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