sion ecosystem, enables
developers to work in their languages of choice, and enables Istio to reliably roll out new
capability without downtime risk. Enter WebAssembly.</p><h2 id=what-is-webassembly>What is WebAssembly?</h2><p><a href=https://webassembly.org/>WebAssembly</a> (Wasm) is a portable bytecode format for executing code
written in <a href=https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs>multiple languages</a> at
near-native speed. Its initial <a href=https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/>d