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WebAsm: Forth with Lisp Syntax. Overview of WebAsm text format, with example. (note: The code is tested and works, however, live example not loading since bitbucket won't send the correct content-type application/wasm for .wasm files; instead sending text/plain)

Most of the time you’re calling it “WebAsm”, but that’s not its name. Would you mind changing them all to “WebAssembly” or “WASM”/“Wasm”/“wasm”?

(Concerning capitalisation, though you don’t look to concern yourself with that, https://webassembly.org/ and a few other sources abbreviate it to “Wasm”; before March 2018, that site used “wasm” instead; in common practice, almost everything I ever see uses “WASM”.)

Based on the title I initially thought it was an unfortunately-named new language called "WebAsm", that took inspiration from Forth and Lisp, since WebAsm isn't quite the real name

I also found "WebAsm" a bit jarring to see.

Hmm, I think it's not a bad idea to add webasm as an additional abbreviation between WebAssembly (too hard to type) and wasm (too cryptic.)

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