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It’s like Java bytecode in the sense that it’s a bytecode spec for a virtual machine, but otherwise quite different. Wasm doesn’t include a GC or support for OO out of the box. It doesn’t even have strings.

That’s great for compiling languages like C++ or Rust though, but makes compiling higher order langues like python or java to it.




Yet. Support for these and more is coming: https://github.com/webassembly/proposals




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