webassembly – Tarik Billa

Can WASM access the DOM without any JavaScript?

April 7, 2024 by Tarik

In the WebAssembly Minimal Viable Product the only way to call into and out of WebAssembly is through imports and exports. In the future, WebAssembly may gain capabilities which allow the embedder expose APIs directly, in a browser embedding this could include the DOM. Imports and exports aren’t very complicated though: from your C code’s … Read more

Access the DOM in WebAssembly

July 17, 2023 by Tarik

I have recently started using Web Assembly for some of my projects. I am doing this because I heard that wasm is faster than javascript. WebAssembly is faster than JavaScript, but only for certain use-cases. With WebAssembly your browser has to do less work to download and compile your code, giving it faster start-up times. … Read more

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