Ok, I started coding in the 90's, discovered Pascal in '92 and have missed it since. Along the way I've dabbled in a few things, but last year I did something bonkers and wrote a simple Pascal interpreter in Odin. This quickly got out of hand, because I've been a WebAssembly fan for a long, long time now. So of course I went overboard and built a wasm-based compiler at [https://wasmpascal.com/](https://wasmpascal.com/) that reads Pascal source and outputs a wasm binary...

Not interpreter, compiler. Really. I'm that crazy. And it's working better than I had hoped for. You can edit Pascal code, in the browser, compile and test it, and, if you are happy with it, download both your code and the resulting binary. With support files, of course. Which means you can self-host your project on a static site like I did with [https://nofuss.co.za/games/breakout/](https://nofuss.co.za/games/breakout/)

It turns out Pascal is so well-suited for the stack-based WebAssembly runtime! There's many bugs, do note it's a very early release, but it can do some useful things already. I'm slowly getting more comfortable writing low-level WAT code, so progress happens over time.

If nothing else, it's a nice trip down memory lane to see good old Pascal code come to live in the modern day.

1992 called, it wants in on the WebAssembly joy