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I can build apps with modern AI models, but I can't follow the math in the papers behind them. Over the next 52 weeks I'm closing the gap and writing about it here on this blog. I'm starting with Karpathy's Zero-to-Hero series, ending with an attempt at writing my first workshop paper. Here's the plan.
Building on the last post, this establishes the mental model needed to read and write WAT: a stack-based VM, explicit control flow, and linear memory. By introducing a shared pseudo language, it reframes functions, branching, loops, structs, arrays, and pointers as deliberate layouts and stack operations everywhere.
This post is the starting point for a series on writing WebAssembly from scratch. I am not using Rust, C, Zig, or any higher level language. I want to build everything by hand so that the pieces make sense and nothing feels like magic and not just walk you through how to use a toolchain.
Can we re-create Rust enums in TypeScript? We can try! I show how we can use type unions to mimic some of the behavior of Rust enums, and then take a look at the differences between the TS implementation and the Rust implementation.