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> So webassembly is an assembly language for the web.

But is isn't, at most WAT is (the WASM text format). WASM itself is a bytecode format. Nobody calls CPU machine code 'assembly' (nitpicking, I know, but the 'web' part of the name makes a lot more sense than the 'assembly' part).



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