--- title: a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go | daily.dev description: watgo is a new open-source WebAssembly toolkit for Go, offering zero-dependency parsing, validation, encoding, and decoding of WebAssembly modules. It provides... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go-nf6sv2pka twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go | daily.dev og:description: watgo is a new open-source WebAssembly toolkit for Go, offering zero-dependency parsing, validation, encoding, and decoding of WebAssembly modules. It provides... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go-nf6sv2pka og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NF6Sv2PkA.png og:image:alt: a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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 WebAssembly Toolkit for Go **[Eli Bendersky](https://daily.dev/sources/elibendersky)** · 4 min read · 29 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary watgo is a new open-source WebAssembly toolkit for Go, offering zero-dependency parsing, validation, encoding, and decoding of WebAssembly modules. It provides both a CLI (compatible with wasm-tools) and a Go API centered around wasmir, a semantic IR for WASM modules. The project passes the full official WebAssembly spec core test suite, achieved through a custom harness that converts WAT to binary WASM and executes it via Node.js. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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