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..uage that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional pr Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8tyml3xBMM&list=PL6ed-L7Ni0yRnaN8-l2wfA0u3ILmyJMkz&index=5: new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling). In a talk at the WebAssembly Summit 2021, Spencer went through the main characteristics of Grain, a programming language that he said is made exclusively for WebAssembly, its only compile target. Link 1 Grain: Your WebAssembly-First Programming Language - WebAssembly Summit 2021: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/grain-web-assembly-first