- Read up on the [WASM text format](https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/text/index.html#), thinking it might make a reasonable compile target - Found the [wat crate](https://crates.io/crates/wat) to compile WAT to binary - Looked at the [wast crate](https://crates.io/crates/wast) to see if it made sense to use to write WAT code (answer seems to be "no" since it's designed for parsing)