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Web assembly

WebAssembly is a binary format for describing a program's data and instructions. It is a new and more efficient binary format.

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We create a new Uint8Array with the bytes of the WebAssembly module. This is usually the output of some compiler and not written by hand.
const bytes = new Uint8Array([
  0,97,115,109,1,0,0,0,1,7,1,96,2,
  127,127,1,127,2,1,0,3,2,1,0,4,1,
  0,5,1,0,6,1,0,7,7,1,3,97,100,100,
  0,0,9,1,0,10,10,1,8,0,32,0,32,1,
  106,15,11,11,1,0,
]);
We create an interface for the WebAssembly module containing all exports.
interface WebAssemblyExports {
  add(a: number, b: number): number;
}
The WebAssembly module is a binary format for describing a program's data and instructions.
const exports = await WebAssembly.instantiate(bytes);
We get the exports from the WebAssembly module and cast it to the interface.
const functions = exports.instance.exports as unknown as WebAssemblyExports;
We call the exported function.
console.log(functions.add(1, 2)); // 3

Run this example locally using the Deno CLI:

deno run https://docs.deno.com/examples/webassembly.ts

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