What is WebAssembly? The Binary Format Eating the Web (and Leaving the Browser)

WebAssembly started as a way to run C++ in a browser without recompiling to JavaScript. Figma, Google Earth, AutoCAD, and video codecs run in WASM. The server-side ecosystem is growing fast enough that cloud providers are building WASM runtimes into their infrastructure. Here is how it works.

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