Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

What sort of background is needed to work on the little projects ?. I have very less experience in compilers but I am super interested in learning about compilers and wasm.

In 2019 I was building in a side project, an oss platform to make your bookmark links public while I was learning React, but I lost my job and I had to stop. This year, I would love to start again with this project and I would love to get help and feedback. Repo:https://github.com/zakokor/pegao Thanks

Awesome thread OP. I can't wait to read the comments and reach out to people.

From my side, I am open to collaborating on any small and fun projects like, a serverless web app, a mobile app, a command line program or even a library of some sort, for example micro apps shared here https://mapps.makeall.dev/ . That could involve learning a new skill or sharpening an old one.

Feel free to reach out, email in the profile.

If you want to work on, e.g. making a neat web demo with Virgil and Wasm, you don't need to know of the compiler internals, as you won't need to poke around inside the compiler. That one is mostly specifying some external functions to import into your Virgil program, writing the Virgil program, and then writing the JS glue to get the resulting Wasm module to run in a browser.

I'd be happy to give pointers. In fact, I realize now that each of the above projects could probably benefit from a few paragraphs of documentation for any takers.

Failing that, feel free to email me directly with questions or post issues on the repo.

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