# WebAssembly

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/w3c/wasm/  
**Provider:** W3C — https://apis.io/providers/w3c/  
**Documentation:** https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/

WebAssembly is one of 15 APIs that [W3C](https://apis.io/providers/w3c/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Performance, Standards, WebAssembly, and Web Platform.

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a W3C Recommendation defining a portable binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. It enables near-native performance in web browsers for code compiled from languages like C, C++, and Rust, and is a core web platform technology.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Specification** — https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/
- **Website** — https://webassembly.org/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec

## Other W3C APIs (12)

- [W3C API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-api/)
- [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/wcag/)
- [HTML Living Standard](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/html/)
- [CSS Specifications](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/css/)
- [JSON-LD](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/json-ld/)
- [Verifiable Credentials](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/verifiable-credentials/)
- [WAI-ARIA](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/aria/)
- [RDF and SPARQL](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/rdf/)
- [Digital Credentials API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/digital-credentials/)
- [W3C Affiliations API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-affiliations-api/)
- [W3C Ecosystems API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-ecosystems-api/)
- [W3C Groups API](https://apis.io/apis/w3c/w3c-groups-api/)

## Tags

Performance, Standards, WebAssembly, Web Platform

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