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pdubroytoday at 7:05 AM0 repliesview on HN

Folks here might be interested in WebAssembly from the Ground Up (https://wasmgroundup.com) — an online book to learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors.)

So far the book only covers WebAssembly 1.0 though. We'll likely publish an update to cover the (few) new features in 2.0, but WebAssembly 3.0 is a pretty big update. Garbage collection and typed references especially add quite a lot to the spec. But, they also make a lot more things possible, which is great.

The spec itself is also very readable and accessible. Everything in the spec that's described formally is also described in plain language. I can't think of any other spec that's quite as nice to read.