A recent edition of [Babbage’s] The Chip Letter discusses the obscurity of assembly language. He points out, and I think correctly, that assembly language is more often read than written, yet… ...

Assembly language is converted to machine language. For example, the assembly instruction compare a,b might be translated into the machine instruciton COMPARE the contents of bytes 32340-32350 ...

WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and virtual machine that brings near-native performance to web browser applications, and allows developers to build high-speed web apps in the language ...