WebAssembly 3.0 Standard Officially Released with Major Feature Updates
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Summary
WebAssembly (Wasm) 3.0 has been officially released as the new live standard, representing a substantial update to the binary instruction format. This release follows three years after Wasm 2.0 and includes several major features that have been in development for six to eight years. The update was developed by the Wasm W3C Community Group and Working Group, continuing the evolution of this portable compilation target for programming languages that enables deployment on web client and server applications.
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· 4 pulledThree years ago, version 2.0 of the Wasm standard was (essentially) finished, which brought a number of new features
In the meantime, the Wasm W3C Community Group and Working Group have not been lazy
Today, we are happy to announce the release of Wasm 3.0 as the new "live" standard
This is a substantially larger update: several big features, some of which have been in the making for six or eight years
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