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A curation of WebAssembly resources, projects, and communities.

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.

Resources

Basics

WebAssembly MDN
WebAssembly Specification

Articles

What is WebAssembly?

Eric Elliott, 2015.

7 Things You Should Know About WebAssembly

Sebastian Peyrott, 2015.

WebAssembly Demystified

Andre Weissflog, 2017.

Why WebAssembly?

Andreas Rossberg, 2018.

The world's easiest introduction to WebAssembly

Martin Olsansky, 2019.

The Future of Programming: WebAssembly & Life After JavaScript

Eric Elliott, 2024.

The Web Assembles

Chris Price and Colin Eberhardt, 2017.

An Empirical Study of Real-World WebAssembly Binaries

Aaron Hilbig, Daniel Lehmann, and Michael Pradel, 2021.

Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code

Abhinav Jangda, Bobby Powers, Emery D. Berger, and Arjun Guha, 2019.

Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing using WebAssembly

Jay Bosamiya, Wen Shih Lim, and Bryan Parno, 2022.

Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly

Daniel Lehmann and Michael Pradel, 2019.

Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly

Andreas Haas, Andreas Rossberg, Derek L. Schuff, Ben L. Titzer, Michael Holman, Dan Gohman, Luke Wagner, Alon Zakai, JF Bastien, 2017.

Books

Rust and WebAssembly

Open-source book describing how to use Rust and WebAssembly together.

Programming WebAssembly with Rust

Kevin Hoffman, 2019.

The Art of WebAssembly

Rick Battagline, 2021.

Videos

WebAssembly

Nick Bray, 2015.

What is WebAssembly?

Lin Clark, 2017.

Get Going with WebAssembly

Johan Brandhorst, 2018.

WebAssembly and the Death of JavaScript

Colin Eberhardt, 2018.

Projects

Compilers

Emscripten

Compile C and C++ to WebAssembly.

AssemblyScript

TypeScript-like language compiled to WebAssembly.

Binaryen

Compiler infrastructure for WebAssembly.

TinyGo

Go compiler for WebAssembly.

Runtimes

Wasmtime

Standalone WebAssembly runtime.

WasmEdge

High-performance WebAssembly runtime.

WAVM

WebAssembly virtual machine.

Wasm3

Small, fast WebAssembly interpreter.

Wasmer

WebAssembly runtime for desktop, cloud, and edge.

Libraries

wasm-bindgen

Interoperability between Rust and JavaScript.

wasmer-js

WebAssembly runtime for JavaScript.

wasm-pack

Build, test, and publish Rust-generated Wasm.

Wabt

WebAssembly binary tolkit.

WASI

WebAssembly system interface.

Tools

Wasm Explorer

Visualize and debug WebAssembly binaries.

wasm2c

Convert WebAssembly binaries to C.

Cross-Origin Isolation Checker

Check whether a page is cross-origin isolated (COOP/COEP), the requirement for SharedArrayBuffer and multithreaded WebAssembly.

Frameworks

Blazor

.NET web framework running on WebAssembly.

Yew

Rust framework for building web applications using WebAssembly.

Leptos

Full-stack Rust framework for WebAssembly web apps.

Communities

WebAssembly GitHub Organization
W3C WebAssembly Group
WebAssembly Subreddit