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Consider adding a pure Wasm tutorial

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the developers guide at webassembly.org/getting-started/developers-guide/ and review the linked Hacker News example for the requested pure-Wasm audience. Define the tutorial’s scope and placement, then confirm that the guide covers writing WebAssembly directly and is linked from the developers guide.

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Description

At https://webassembly.org/getting-started/developers-guide/ it said:
Coming from a language or targeting an environment not listed here? Please raise an issue!

Pure WASM. Writing in assembly. Some of us would liek to start there. E.g: This person https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32128209#32130924

Dominant language
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Stars
289
Forks
213
Avg merge
3d 10h
Merged PRs (30d)
5

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