## 4 Tools for WebAssembly Development
### WebAssembly Compilers  
* Wide adoption and active community support
* Provides high compatibility with existing C/C++ codebases
* Offers integration with popular web frameworks and libraries and provides advanced optimization options
- Requires a more substantial toolchain setup and configuration
* Compilation process can be slower compared to other compilers
* Code output can be larger in size, impacting load times  
* Produces small Wasm binaries optimized for size and speed
* Provides good compatibility with the Go programming language \begin{table}
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**Tool** & **Description** & **Purpose** & **Features** & **Performance** & **Usability** \\ \hline wat2 wasm & Translate from Wasm text format to binary format & Conversion, compilation & Control over formatting, comments, labels & Fast and efficient & Easy \\ \hline wasm2 wat & Translate from binary format back to text format & Inspection, understanding of module structure & Control over output format & Fast and efficient & Easy \\ \hline wasm-objdump & Print information about a Wasm binary file & Analysis, debugging & Control over output format & Fast and efficient & Moderate \\ \hline wasm-interp & Decode and run a Wasm binary file using interpreter & Testing, debugging, analyzing behavior & Tracing function calls, step-by-step execution & Moderate performance & Easy \\ \hline wasm- decompile & Decompile a Wasm binary into readable C-like syntax & Decompilation, code analysis & Control over decompilation settings & Varies depending on complexity & Moderate \\ \hline wat-desugar & Parse.wat text form and print “canonical” flat format & Parsing, transformation & Support for s-expressions, flat syntax & Veries depending on input size & Moderate \\ \hline wasm2c & Convert a Wasm binary file to C source and header & Porting, integration with existing codebases & Control over C code generation & Veries depending on input size & Moderate \\ \hline wasm-strip & Remove sections of a Wasm binary file & File size reduction, optimization & Control over stripping options & Fast and efficient & Easy \\ \hline wasm-validate & Validate a file in Wasm binary format & Verification, security & Detection of malformed or invalid modules & Fast and efficient & Easy \\ \hline wast2 json & Convert a file in wasm spec test format to JSON & Test conversion, JSON output & Associated wasn binary files generation & Veries depending on input size & Easy \\ \hline wasm-opocodent & Count opcode usage for instructions & Instruction analysis & Detailed opcode statistics & Fast and efficient & Easy \\ \hline spectest-interp & Read a Spectest JSON file and run tests in interpreter & Testing, validation & Compliance with Spectest suite & Veries depending on test complexity & Easy \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: Comparison of tools belonging to WABT. * Supports direct interaction with JavaScript APIs, offering a lightweight and fast compilation process
* Limited support for certain Go language features and standard library packages
* Less mature compared to other Go compilers
* Smaller ecosystem and community compared to mainstream Go  
* WARDuino is a compiler that targets the Arduino platform, allowing developers to write programs in a subset of the C language and compile them to run on Arduino devices [21]. * Enables developers to write Arduino programs using a higher-level language
* Provides abstraction and simplification for Arduino programming Offers compatibility with Arduino libraries and hardware
* Limited to Arduino-specific use cases
* Less support for advanced features compared to general-purpose compilers
* Requires familiarity with the Arduino platform  
* Wasm3 is a lightweight Wasm runtime and interpreter that allows Wasm modules to be run efficiently [22]. It is designed for resource-constrained environments and has a small footprint.