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 Lately in doing research on WebAssembly I've been looking around for examples
-of things implemented in it, and I've come across several blog posts based on
+of things implemented in it.  In this search I've come across several blog
-the fantastic *Rust And WebAssembly* tutorial for
+posts that claim to be Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly, but upon opening them,
-[Conway's Game of Life](https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/game-of-life/introduction.html).
+I find they are actually just Rust!
 
-And I mean no shade towards the folks who wrote those, but I feel it's mildly
+Now I mean no shade towards Rust or those posts (and if that's what you're
-disingenuous to say that those are "Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly" when
+curious about doing, I recommend the fantastic [Conway's Game of Life](https://rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/game-of-life/introduction.html)
-the actual game code was written entirely in Rust.  In those sorts of projects
+guide from *Rust and WebAssembly*) but around here I take pride in being
-WebAssembly is really no more than a compilation target, not actually the
+accurate to the point of pedantry.  Rust is very much not WebAssembly, and
-language used!
+despite how much we front-end developers may get them conflated in our heads,
+this feels like a distinction worth making!
 
 So of course I knew what I had to do . . . 
 
-Welcome to Conway's Game of Life, *actually implemented* in WebAssembly:
+Welcome to Conway's Game of Life, ***actually implemented in WebAssembly:***
 
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