What WebAssembly means for .NET
WebAssembly (Wasm) is the not-so new standard to run high performance code in the browser, in the client side. You can think of it as an optimized Virtual Machine (VM), which translates intermediate code, bytecode, into the target machine architecture, all of it within a secured sandbox. It is not a replacement for JavaScript, it is not the silver bullet, but has allowed us to think of the Web as another desktop target for .NET, in the same way Windows, macOS, Android or iOS, among other ones, already are.
You can right now run your .NET Core Console app embedded in a HTML file, make web requests, access the File System (FS), draw stuff with WebGL (the Web branch for OpenGL), and a lot of more things, just because it is the .NET runtime being executed in Wasm. There are still steps to be taken in order to make things smoother for us the Developers but, at the same time, begins to be mature enough for using along projects.
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