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Oct 23, 2026
Wasm Components in Firefox: Faster Web APIs, Better DX | WebAssembly Unleashed
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6:40Ryan HuntGUEST
You can't just take your normal C++ compiler and just get a Wasm file that you could just stick in a script tag, and then it just works.
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6:48Ryan HuntGUEST
There's no web.h header that will give you all the different web APIs.
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6:54Ryan HuntGUEST
If you want to do it, you actually have a number of options.
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6:57Ryan HuntGUEST
One of them is Emscripten.
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7:46Ryan HuntGUEST
And when you already have... an escape patch of like, well, you know, I could just use JavaScript here.
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7:52Ryan HuntGUEST
I don't need to like hurt myself today trying to get over this.
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7:56Ryan HuntGUEST
And then another thing too is there is, there's a bit of a performance gap between Wasm and JavaScript around web APIs.
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8:08Ryan HuntGUEST
Today, if you are, again, I give the example of adding C++ at Rust and If you want to use a Web API, Wasm by itself doesn't have a way of doing it.