Thoughts on WebAssembly as a stack machine

158 · Eli Bendersky · April 30, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
Summary
Eli Bendersky discusses a recent article that argues WebAssembly (WASM) is not a pure stack machine due to its inclusion of locals and absence of certain stack manipulation operations. He explores this claim and what it means for the understanding of stack machines in the context of software development.