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Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser

WebAssembly (Wasm) has many applications in the cloud-native world today – WASI, edge cloud computing, Proxy-Wasm, and cloud-native runtime for serverless functions, to name a few. The question is, why has WebAssembly become so popular?

To answer this, let’s begin by looking at the basic properties of WebAssembly.

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Bookmarked this for later - just so little time atm :sob:

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WASM really is awesome, been using it as an embedded scripting runtime for my things lately.

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