Strings are only an array of numbers (codepoints). Wasm is intended as a compiler target that can be easily implemented with good performance. The text format i

Strings are only an array of numbers (codepoints). Wasm is intended as a compiler target that can be easily implemented with good performance. The text format is not a high level language on purpose. The proper term for this tool is not a compiler but an assembler because the text format is a 1-to-1 mapping of the binary output.