Java vs. MRTK-Unity vs. PureScript vs. WebAssembly Comparison Chart

MRTK-Unity is a Microsoft-driven project that provides a set of components and features, used to accelerate cross-platform MR app development in Unity. Provides the cross-platform input system and building blocks for spatial interactions and UI. Enables rapid prototyping via in-editor simulation that allows you to see changes immediately. Operates as an extensible framework that provides developers the ability to swap out core components. A button control that supports various input methods, including HoloLens 2's articulated hand. Standard UI for manipulating objects in 3D space. Script for manipulating objects with one or two hands. 2D style plane which supports scrolling with articulated hand input. A script for making objects interactable with visual states and theme support. Various object positioning behaviors such as tag-along, body-lock, constant view size, and surface magnetism. Script for laying out an array of objects in a three-dimensional shape.

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the web for client and server applications. The Wasm stack machine is designed to be encoded in a size- and load-time-efficient binary format. WebAssembly aims to execute at native speed by taking advantage of common hardware capabilities available on a wide range of platforms. WebAssembly describes a memory-safe, sandboxed execution environment that may even be implemented inside existing JavaScript virtual machines. When embedded in the web, WebAssembly will enforce the same-origin and permissions security policies of the browser. WebAssembly is designed to be pretty-printed in a textual format for debugging, testing, experimenting, optimizing, learning, teaching, and writing programs by hand. The textual format will be used when viewing the source of Wasm modules on the web.