missing the point of webassembly — wingolog

WebAssembly and its platform targets

When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit important as it dictates whether your WebAssembly code will (not) work with another bit as it all

WebAssembly Core Specification

Please check the errata for any errors or issues reported since publication.

Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web? – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

A Tale of Three WebAssembly Runtimes

Walking through the implementation of three different WebAssembly runtimes from scratch

Instructions — WebAssembly 3.0 (2026-06-03)

WebAssembly computation is performed by executing individual instructions.

WebAssembly

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.

Semble — Make sense of the web, together

A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.

Port of Linux to WebAssembly - Joel Severin

Rust - The WebAssembly Component Model

Rust has first-class support for WebAssembly core and WebAssembly components via the available targets in the toolchain:

extism/extism

The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily & securely load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps.

extism/extism

The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily & securely load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps.

Issues · WebAssembly/component-model

Repository for design and specification of the Component Model - Issues · WebAssembly/component-model

blackskyweb.xyz — Semble

Semble page for blackskyweb.xyz

Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly

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.

Wasm 2.0 Completed - WebAssembly

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.