When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

This article details the relationship between WebAssembly (Wasm), Document object models (DOMs) and JavaScript. The author shows an example workaround on how to overcome the limitations of Wasm by using glue code from JavaScript to connect to DOMs. Topics include Application Programming Interfaces (...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 11; pp. 44 - 50
Main Author:	Ehrenberg, Daniel
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2025
Subjects:	Programming languages Document Object Model (Web development technology) JavaScript programming language Application program interfaces Binary codes
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	This article details the relationship between WebAssembly (Wasm), Document object models (DOMs) and JavaScript. The author shows an example workaround on how to overcome the limitations of Wasm by using glue code from JavaScript to connect to DOMs. Topics include Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), the World Wide Web Consortium Wasm Community Group, and Wasm Garbage collectors (GCs). Also presented are ways to reduce the overhead of programs that span the JavaScript/Wasm boundary.