What are your recommendations for studying Web Assembly?

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While studying Dfinity, I noticed web assembly plays a big role of canister. But I am new to WASM, many words(like actor model, async, deterministic) makes me confused.

I would like to learn about Web assembly from foundation. So could you tell me some recommendation teaching aids（books, docs, videos)?

Thanks.

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While you don’t actually need to know the low level details of Wasm to build on the IC, I certainly wouldn’t discourage a deep dive into WebAssembly if you’re interested. For this Lin Clark’s talks are excellent, you can find a few links in this thread:

And re the terms you mentioned above, they’re really unrelated topics, but they’re equally interesting! For some info on the actor model there’s some good content here: https://forum.dfinity.org/t/introduction-to-the-actor-model/81?u=ori
And Wikipedia is worth a read for a quick overview of determinism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_algorithm

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This is my attitude 100%.

And I also highly recommend Lin Clark’s talks and posts as well to get started.

I will share that learning about simple virtual machines (stack machines vs register machines), helped me understand WebAssembly as well.

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