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Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web?

Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web?

The post catalogs recent WebAssembly extensions: shared memory, SIMD, exceptions, tail calls, 64-bit memory, GC, bulk memory, multiple returns, and reference types.

It argues WebAssembly remains a second-class web language. Messy JS glue and arcane loading keep it there. The post pushes the WebAssembly Component Model with WIT. That combo enables native loading, cross-language linking, and direct Web API bindings.


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