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WebAssembly (WASM): The Future of High-Performance Front-End

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Modern web applications are more powerful than ever—but with power comes complexity and performance bottlenecks. While JavaScript has been the dominant language of the web for decades, it has its limits, especially for performance-intensive tasks like video editing, 3D rendering, and gaming. Enter WebAssembly (WASM) — a game-changing technology that brings near-native performance to web applications. In this post, we’ll explore what WASM is, why it matters, and how it’s transforming front-end development. What is WebAssembly? WebAssembly is a low-level binary instruction format designed to run code at near-native speed in modern web browsers. It acts as a compilation target for languages like C, C++, Rust, and Go, allowing you to bring non-JavaScript code to the browser securely and efficiently. // Unlike JavaScript, you don’t write WebAssembly directly. // But here’s how you load a WASM module in JavaScript: fetch('example.wasm')   .then(response => respo...