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Editor’s note: This is Part One of a two-part series on WebAssembly and the programming language Go. WebAssembly is a portable and efficient binary instruction format designed for web browsers, while https://go.dev/ known for its simplicity, speed and concurrency features.

The Go programming language has a compiler that can produce Wasm binaries, allowing Go programs to run in a web browser.

The Golang WebAssembly API provides a set of functions that can be used to interact with WebAssembly modules from Go code running in a web browser. These functions allow Go programs to call functions defined in WebAssembly modules, pass values between Go and WebAssembly, and manipulate WebAssembly memory.