WebAssembly

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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2

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What Wikipedia says

WebAssembly (Wasm) defines a portable binary code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs and software interfaces for facilitating communication between such programs and their host environment.

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