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Asciidoctor vs WebAssembly: What are the differences?

Asciidoctor: An open source, pure Ruby processor for converting AsciiDoc documents or strings into HTML and other formats. It is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. Asciidoctor is written in Ruby and runs on all major operating systems ; WebAssembly: A binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. It is an open standard that defines a portable binary code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.

Asciidoctor can be classified as a tool in the "Text Processors" category, while WebAssembly is grouped under "Languages".

Some of the features offered by Asciidoctor are:

  • Lightweight markup language for authoring notes
  • Articles
  • Documentation

On the other hand, WebAssembly provides the following key features:

  • Efficient and fast
  • Safe
  • Open and debuggable

WebAssembly is an open source tool with 3.49K GitHub stars and 347 GitHub forks. Here's a link to WebAssembly's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, WebAssembly has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to Asciidoctor, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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      What is Asciidoctor?

      It is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. Asciidoctor is written in Ruby and runs on all major operating systems

      What is WebAssembly?

      It is an open standard that defines a portable binary code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.

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      What are some alternatives to Asciidoctor and WebAssembly?
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      Markdown
      Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
      Pandoc
      It is a free and open-source document converter, widely used as a writing tool and as a basis for publishing workflows. It converts files from one markup format into another. It can convert documents in (several dialects of) Markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki and many more.
      JavaScript
      JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
      Python
      Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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