You may have heard about WebAssembly. It’s an open standard that aims to help developers create high performance applications on the web. It’s a portable binary execution format traditionally used on the front end, but there are also other ways to use it. I am completely new to WebAssembly, so today we have a guest to talk about it with us.

Show Notes

• Extism repo: https://github.com/extism/extism
• WebAssembly MDN Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly
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