What is this Blazor thing, anyway?

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Explains that WebAssembly is a stack‑based binary VM running in modern browsers, promising near‑native performance for compute‑heavy tasks; toolchain uses LLVM/emscripten and has frontends for C/C++, Rust, Kotlin and .NET via Mono runtime compiled to WebAssembly (Blazor) or Bolero for F#. Notes hard limits: no direct DOM access (must call back to JS) and Blazor currently runs a VM inside a VM, so latency and resource constraints make it not yet a drop‑in replacement for typical web apps, but good for games or audio synthesis.

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1. 0:00Introduction to WebAssembly
2. 0:45What is WebAssembly?
3. 1:50Why do we need it?
4. 2:43Past web technology attempts
5. 4:20Advantages of WebAssembly
6. 6:10Goals and design principles
7. 7:27How WebAssembly works
8. 8:27Technical example: factorial
9. 10:17Tooling and language support
10. 11:37Challenges and limitations
11. 12:56Conclusion and Q&A

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