1 An Introduction to WebAssembly
In this chapter, you’ll acquire background knowledge of WebAssembly and explore the tools you’ll need to start working with WebAssembly and its textual representation, WebAssembly Text (WAT). We’ll discuss the benefits of WebAssembly, including improved performance, legacy library integration, portability, security, and its use as an alternative to JavaScript. We’ll consider JavaScript’s relationship with WebAssembly and what WebAssembly is and isn’t. You’ll learn the WAT inline and S-expression syntax. We’ll introduce the concepts of the embedding environment and discuss embedding WebAssembly in web browsers, ...
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