Converting Rust into WebAssembly via rustc

Learn how to convert Rust code into WebAssembly using the rustc command.

Rust uses the LLVM compiler, which we’ll create now, in order to generate machine-native code. rustc uses LLVM’s capability to convert the native code into a WebAssembly module. Let’s start converting Rust into a WebAssembly module using rustc.

Getting started with the project

We’ll start with Hello World:

  1. Let’s create a file called hello_world.rs:

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