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Official book launch 🚀

Dear friends, The day has finally arrived! We're excited to announce the official launch of our book, WebAssembly from the Ground Up. 🎉 A quick request: we'd...

New draft chapter: Odds & Ends

February 14, 2025

Hello! We've just published a draft of an appendix chapter, called "Odds & Ends". It's where we quickly cover some aspects of WebAssembly that didn't fit in...

What makes WebAssembly safe?

January 31, 2025

Hello out there! We've got a beefy January update for y'all: New chapter We've just published a draft of the FINAL technical chapter of the book, the deep...

A holiday treat: Chapters 9 & 10

December 18, 2024

Hey friends, It's been a while! We've been hard at work on the book and have some juicy updates to share with you, just in time for the holiday season. The...

Big changes to Chap. 3: A Calculator Language

Hello again! Yesterday we published another update to the book, with some fairly extensive changes to Chapter 3: A Calculator Language. We added a new...

A draft of Chapter 8: Drawing on a Canvas

Another Friday, another book update — We just published new chapter draft: "Drawing to a Canvas". It's a lot of fun. In this chapter, you build a kind of...

Chapter 6 is done! And a draft of Chapter 7

Hello again! A quick update for you on this beautiful Friday afternoon… What's changed We've finished Chapter 6: "Conditionals, Comparisons, and Loops". (We...

Chapter 5 done! Get a limited-time discount

Hello! It's been a while since you've heard from us. And that's because we've been hard at work on the book. TL;DR: Chapter 5 is done, we've raised the price...

Chap 4 is done! And other news

December 15, 2023

Good news, everyone! We just published1 some big updates to the book: Chapter 4, "Local Variables and Assignment", is now complete 🥳 First drafts of Chapter...

Office hours today! Come say hi

December 6, 2023

Hey everyone, Sorry for the short notice, but today we're trying something new: office hours! Today (Dec 6) at 8am PT / 11am ET / 17:00 CET — you can join us...

New chapter draft: Local variables and assignment

September 29, 2023

Hey everyone! For those of you who've already purchased the book, we hope you're enjoying it so far. For those who haven't, here's an another reason to...

Looking for 15-20 new beta readers

Howdy, Over the past few weeks, we've been hard at work on the book. Now we're ready for the next round of beta reading. We're looking for 15-20 people to...

First conversations with beta readers

February 20, 2023

Hello out there! Thanks to everyone who's expressed interest in our upcoming book. We've been busy since the initial announcement on Twitter, and it's about...