matthewmueller/joy

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1315 stars · 34 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Joy is a Go-to-JavaScript compiler that translates idiomatic Go into concise JavaScript runnable in every browser, with a CLI for compiling, running in headless Chrome, and serving with livereload. Development is explicitly on hold in favor of Go's official WASM support.

Use cases

• compile go code to javascript
• write frontend apps in go
• run go code in the browser
• transpile go to es3 javascript
• use go tooling for web development
• test go code in headless chrome

When to choose

• you want to experiment with a Go-to-JS transpiler or study its compiler techniques
• you need to compile small Go programs to browser JavaScript with a simple CLI

When to avoid

• you need a maintained, production-ready Go-to-JavaScript solution (use Go's WASM toolchain instead)
• you need DOM, virtual DOM, React, or production build support, which were never completed
• you require long-term support or bug fixes

Facets

cli-tool · maturity abandoned

compiler cli developer-tools compilers web-development frontend programming-languages go cli cross-platform go-to-javascript transpiler frontend-development on-hold dead-code-elimination compiler

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