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Firefox for Web Developers
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WebAssembly is a second-class language on the web, but how can we make it first-class? WebAssembly Components could be the answer… hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/maki...

hacks.mozilla.orgMaking WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blogThis post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of…

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Ben Visness
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That’s part of it. See the console example near the end. If you work through the details of what such a thing would mean, you find that you need some kind of ABI to define the low-level details of each call, and then some kind of bindings to use it. That’s a big part of what components do today.