Rancher Blog Stupid Simple WebAssembly

In this blog post, we'll introduce you to WebAssembly. We'll start with a history lesson on the Assembly language, which was created to make programming easier and boost productivity. Then we'll move on to WebAssemby, a descendent of Assembly, and cover what it is, the problems it solves and how it does that. Assembly Decades ago, if you wanted to program a computer, you had to write binary code. We called it machine code because it is the native language of any computer (maybe this will change with the rise of quantum computing, but for now, every computer works on binary code).