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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by afiori on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:22AM (#47347152)
The web part is the security model and the tradeoffs between security and performance. PNaCL was in browsers but not "web" for this reason.

Like the assembly part means low-level and meant as a compilation target, not CPU instructions.

So websssembly is an assembly language for the web, like webgl is opengl for the web and webgpu are gpu APIs for the web. And behold none of those can access DOM APIs

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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by flohofwoe on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:38AM (#47348010)
> So webassembly is an assembly language for the web.

But is isn't, at most WAT is (the WASM text format). WASM itself is a bytecode format. Nobody calls CPU machine code 'assembly' (nitpicking, I know, but the 'web' part of the name makes a lot more sense than the 'assembly' part).

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