State of the Web: WebAssembly
What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?
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5 min readJan 1, 2022
WebAssembly (WASM) is a new assembly-like language on the web that aims to allow developers to write fast, portable code in the language of their choice. It is currently usable in all modern browsers and Node.js, and some WebAssembly only runtimes.
