¶ Technical data
- Developer: Bruno Garcia
- Year of release: 2021
- Display: 60x160 pixels, 4 customizable colors, updated at 60 Hz
- RAM: 64KB linear RAM, memory-mapped I/O, save states
- Storage : Cartridge Size Limit 64 KB
- Device: Keyboard, mouse, touchescreen, up to 4 gamepads
- Sound: 2 pulse wave channels, 1 triangle wave channel, 1 noise channel
¶ Presentation
WebAssembly, abbreviated wasm, is a World Wide Web standard for application development. It is designed to replace JavaScript with superior performance. The standard consists of bytecode, its textual representation and a sandboxed execution environment compatible with JavaScript. It can be run both inside and outside a web browser. WebAssembly is standardized within the World Wide Web Consortium.
As WebAssembly only specifies a low-level language, bytecode is generally produced by compiling a higher-level language. Among the first languages supported were Rust, with the wasm-bindgen project/module (crate), and C and C++, compiled with Emscripten (based on LLVM). Many other programming languages now have WebAssembly compilers, including C#, Go, Java, Lua, Python, Ruby, Fortran and Pascal.
Web browsers compile wasm bytecode in the machine language of the host on which they are used, before executing it.