What is WebAssembly?

- The web is an excellent platform for publishing information and even advanced content-driven applications and games. However, the native languages of the web, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript have severe limitations and for many applications there are other coding languages that are just better suited than the web languages. Wouldn't it'd be great if we could just write applications in whatever language we wanted? And run it on the web? Enter WebAssembly. WebAssembly quite literally converts over 20 languages into a low-level language the browser can parse, which runs alongside the regular Web stack including JavaScript. That means we can build standalone applications in C or C++ or Rust, Java or Python or GO and a bunch of other languages that can all run in the browser alongside other browser native code. Browser. That doesn't mean you can just skip learning web development to go straight to your favorite application language, but it does mean you can write applications and deploy them…