--- title: "A Primer on WebAssembly" url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-primer-on-webassembly--uvftyame source_url: https://blog.devgenius.io/a-primer-on-webassembly-834150fdd7ae type: article source: "Dev Genius" author: "Divya Mohan" published: 2022-01-09T17:45:49.339Z updated: 2026-03-15T03:33:06.764Z tags: ["general-programming", "javascript", "performance", "webassembly"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 10 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Primer on WebAssembly **[Dev Genius](https://daily.dev/sources/devgenius)** · [@divyamohan0209](https://daily.dev/divyamohan0209) · 5 min read · 10 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In 2022, I will be diving into the world of WebAssembly and Rust. To understand why there was a requirement for WebAssembly, let’s take a stroll down memory lane. The world wide web, as we know it today, started off as a single page project on a NeXT computer at CERN. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#webassembly](https://daily.dev/tags/webassembly) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-primer-on-webassembly--uvftyame)