Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web?
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This article discusses the evolution of WebAssembly since 2017, highlighting its initial support for low-level languages and its potential to become a primary web language, based on a 2025 presentation.
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This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the 2025 WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of […]
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