Chapter 11. WebAssembly text format
This chapter covers
- Creating a WebAssembly text format version of a module
- Compiling the text format code into a binary module using the WebAssembly Binary Toolkit’s online tool
- Linking the Binary Toolkit’s generated module to an Emscripten-generated module
- Building the HTML and JavaScript for the UI aspect of a game
WebAssembly is designed with a binary file format so that the WebAssembly files are as small as possible, allowing for fast transmissions and downloads; this doesn’t mean it’s a way for developers to hide their code. In fact, quite the opposite is true. WebAssembly is designed with the web’s openness in mind. As a result, a text format equivalent of the binary format also exists.
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