WebAssembly (Wasm): Concepts, Advantages, and Practical Rust Integration
WebAssembly (Wasm) is a portable binary format that runs near native speed in browsers, providing sandboxed security and modular deployment, though its ecosystem is still maturing; it shines in compute‑intensive tasks like scientific computing, gaming, and porting native code, and can be integrated with Rust via wasm‑bindgen and wasm‑pack to create npm‑compatible modules that outperform JavaScript on larger workloads, while requiring higher development effort.