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January 1, 2023

I’m Nicolas Galipot, a french developer living in France. I’m interested in programming languages, compilers, web development, databases, videogames and cooking.

Generating Small WASM Modules

WebAssembly For small web projects like simple utilities and games, using WebAssembly is often seen as a quite heavyweight solution, both in terms of code size and program size. Apart from notable exceptions like Figma, WebAssembly has mostly been used as a way for big existing applications to retroactively target the web. To understand why, I will first give you some context about WebAssembly, then we’ll see that it doesn’t have to be this way.