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@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Here are some of the goals (and non-goals) of WAForth:
- ✅ **Completeness**: Implement a complete (and correct) Forth system, following the [ANS Standard](http://lars.nocrew.org/dpans/dpans.htm), including all [ANS Core words](http://lars.nocrew.org/dpans/dpans6.htm#6.1).
- ❓ **Speed**: If some speed gains can be gotten without paying much in simplicity (e.g. better design of the system, more efficient implementation of words, simple compiler improvements, ...), then I do it. However, generating the most efficient code would require a smart compiler, and a smart compiler would introduce a lot of complexity if implemented in raw WebAssembly, so speed is not an ultimate goal. Although the low level of WebAssembly gives some speed advantages, the design of the system will cause execution to consist almost exclusively of indirect calls to small functions, so there will be languages targeting WebAssembly that run faster.
- ❌ **Binary size**: Since the entire system is written in raw WebAssembly, and since one of the main goals is simplicity, the resulting binary size is naturally quite small (±12k). However, I don't do any special efforts to save bytes here and there in the code (or the generated code) if it makes things more complex.
- ❌ **Ease of use**: I currently don't make any effort to provide functionality to make Forth programming easy (helpful errors, ...). However, the compiler emits debug information to help step through the WebAssembly code of words, and I hope to add more debugging aids to the compiler in the future.
- ❌ **Ease of use**: Not unlike most Forths, I currently don't do much effort to provide functionality to make Forth programming easy (helpful errors, stacktraces, ...). However, the compiler emits debug information to help step through the WebAssembly code of words, and I hope to add more debugging aids to the compiler in the future.
![Debugger view of a compiled
word](doc/debugger.png "Debugger view of a