Update (Jun 20, 2025). This post was originally published at JVM Advent. Welcome back, my dear Java Geek! Last year we compared WebAssembly and discussed in what ways it differs from the JVM. A lot of things have happened in the meantime. If you want to dive deeper into that kind of detail, I warmly suggest reading this beautiful blog series by Chris Dickinson. For this Java Advent, I wanted to get back to the topic from a different angle. Last year we saw that, because the JVM and WebAsse...