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Lin Clark on WebAssembly

There are several computer science students (including myself) who before entering the major had already some hands on experience with programming. I would dare to say that most of them started programming web pages. We all understand the basics, first put some HTML to define the structure of the page, then add CSS to style the page, some Javascript to add dynamic content and finally use your preferred programming language for the backend. In my case, the programming language which I used was PHP.  Nowadays, web applications turned out to be the next big thing. Many years ago, people used to download and install a software using a wizard or running some script to store the program in their computer, but now, this has changed. Now, the programs are not stored in the clients' storage, they are stored somewhere else (mainly in the cloud or a web hosting). So that raises the question: How users can access these applications? By an amazing software called the web browser.  I am still ve