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Awesome Wasm Langs

😎 A curated list of languages that compile directly to or have their VMs in WebAssembly

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vlang/v

Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

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V .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#compiler #language #programming-language #v

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-22
License: MIT
Issues: 173 open

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Forks: 2,315
Commits: 27,425 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +7 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +106 +0.4%

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RustPython/RustPython

A Python Interpreter written in Rust

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Rust Express pytest Cargo npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#compiler #hacktoberfest #interpreter #jit #language #python-language

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-05-28
License: MIT
Issues: 307 open

22,456

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Forks: 1,507
Commits: 18,066 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +8 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +29 +0.2%

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crystal-lang/crystal

The Crystal Programming Language

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Crystal

GitHub topics

#compiler #crystal #crystal-language #hacktoberfest #programming-language

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-04
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,152 open

20,479

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Forks: 1,726
Commits: 17,180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +45 +0.3%

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AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

A TypeScript-like language for WebAssembly.

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WebAssembly npm

GitHub topics

#assemblyscript #compiler #typescript #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2026-10-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-28
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 213 open

18,036

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Forks: 696
Commits: 1,639 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -1 0.0%
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ballercat/walt

:zap: Walt is a JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly text format :zap:

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JavaScript Express React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#compiler #javascript #webassembly

Updated: 2023-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-13
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

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Forks: 118
Commits: 343 commits
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GetFirefly/firefly

An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly

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Rust Cargo CMake Mix

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#beam #compiler #erlang #erlang-vm #hacktoberfest #lumen

Updated: 2023-10-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-07
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 49 open

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Forks: 109
Commits: 2,503 commits
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grain-lang/grain

The Grain compiler toolchain and CLI. Home of the modern web staple. 🌾

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Reason npm

GitHub topics

#compiler #functional-programming #grain #language #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2026-10-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-04
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 283 open

3,469

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Forks: 125
Commits: 2,008 commits
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grame-cncm/faust

Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis

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C++ Android pytest Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio #c #c-plus-plus #cmajor #compiler #cpp

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2004-04-27
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 246 open

3,199

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Forks: 433
Commits: 14,515 commits
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edubart/nelua-lang

Minimal, efficient, statically-typed and meta-programmable systems programming language heavily inspired by Lua, which compiles to C and native code.

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Lua Bundler

GitHub topics

#c #compiler #efficient #language #lua #luajit

Updated: 2025-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-09
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

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Forks: 90
Commits: 1,635 commits
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kcl-lang/kcl

KCL Language Core and API

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Rust Cargo

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#cloud-native #compiler #configuration #configuration-language #configuration-management #devops

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-05-05
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 19 open

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Forks: 177
Commits: 1,386 commits
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tweag/asterius

DEPRECATED in favor of ghc wasm backend, see https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-11-22-wasm-backend-merged-in-ghc

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Haskell npm

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#compiler #ghc #haskell #webassembly

Updated: 2022-11-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-20
License: Unknown
Issues: 137 open

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Forks: 56
Commits: 1,088 commits
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ring-lang/ring

A simple, lightweight, flexible, embeddable, portable and multi-paradigm dynamic programming language for developing applications, tools, and domain-specific languages

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C CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#compiler #declarative-language #desktop #functional-programming #games #imperative-programming-language

Updated: 2026-11-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-24
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

1,470

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Forks: 437
Commits: 44,517 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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titzer/virgil

A fast and lightweight native programming language

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Shell

GitHub topics

#compiler #garbage-collection #native #programming-language #system-programming #systems

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-03-18
License: Unknown
Issues: 38 open

1,431

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Forks: 61
Commits: 3,416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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ldc-developers/ldc

The LLVM-based D Compiler.

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D CMake

GitHub topics

#compiler #d #dlang #ldc #llvm

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-02
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 594 open

1,383

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Forks: 298
Commits: 49,307 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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leaningtech/cheerp-meta

Cheerp - a C/C++ compiler for Web applications - compiles to WebAssembly and JavaScript

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JavaScript CMake npm

GitHub topics

#c #cheerp #compiler #cpp #javascript #typescript

Updated: 2025-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-07
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 5 open

1,193

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Forks: 55
Commits: 113 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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i-net-software/JWebAssembly

Java bytecode to WebAssembly compiler

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Java Gradle

GitHub topics

#compiler #java #jwebassembly #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-19
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 22 open

1,058

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Forks: 62
Commits: 1,314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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mirkosertic/Bytecoder

Framework to interpret and transpile JVM bytecode to JavaScript, OpenCL or WebAssembly.

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Java Maven

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#bytecode #compiler #decompiler #java-bytecode #javascript #jvm-bytecode

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-13
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 42 open

963

stars

Forks: 64
Commits: 1,482 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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arnetheduck/nlvm

LLVM-based compiler for the Nim language

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Nim

GitHub topics

#compiler #language #llvm #nim

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-19
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

782

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Forks: 46
Commits: 284 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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remko/waforth

Small but complete dynamic Forth Interpreter/Compiler for and in WebAssembly

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WebAssembly React npm

GitHub topics

#compiler #compilers #forth #interpreter #javascript #logo

Updated: 2025-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-12
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

595

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 557 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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coi/coi

A type-safe, component-based language for building reactive WASM web apps.

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C++ npm

GitHub topics

#coi #coi-lang #compiler #deterministic-performance #fine-grained-reactivity #frontend

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-01-03
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

567

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 693 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tyfkda/xcc

Standalone C compiler/assembler/linker/libc for x86-64/aarch64/riscv64/wasm

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C Vite npm

GitHub topics

#aarch64 #arm64 #assembler #c #c-compiler #compiler

Updated: 2026-10-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-31
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

560

stars

Forks: 42
Commits: 3,043 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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01alchemist/TurboScript

Super charged typed JavaScript dialect for parallel programming which compiles to WebAssembly

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JavaScript Express npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#compiler #javascript #parallel-computing #typescript #webassembly

Updated: 2017-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-14
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 28 open

494

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Forks: 25
Commits: 370 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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never-lang/never

Never: statically typed, embeddable functional programming language.

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C CMake

GitHub topics

#compiler #compilers #functional-language #functional-programming #language #programming-language

Updated: 2024-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-06
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

460

stars

Forks: 12
Commits: 599 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ajeetdsouza/loxcraft

Language tooling for the Lox programming language.

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Rust Next.js React Tailwind CSS Warp Cargo pnpm

GitHub topics

#bytecode #bytecode-interpreter #compiler #compiler-construction #compiler-design #crafting-interpreters

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-01-13
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

364

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 102 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ciao-lang/ciao

Ciao is a modern Prolog implementation that builds up from a logic-based simple kernel designed to be portable, extensible, and modular.

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Prolog

GitHub topics

#bytecode #ciao-prolog #clp #compiler #constraints #interpreter

Updated: 2025-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-07
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 49 open

354

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 2,266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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MichaReiser/speedy.js

Accelerate JavaScript Applications by Compiling to WebAssembly

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TypeScript Express CMake npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#compiler #javascript #llvm #webassembly #webpack-loader

Updated: 2017-10-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-06
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

342

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Forks: 17
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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luc-tielen/eclair-lang

A minimal, fast Datalog implementation in Haskell that compiles to LLVM IR

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Haskell

GitHub topics

#compiler #datalog #haskell #llvm #logic-programming

Updated: 2024-01-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-06-16
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 9 open

235

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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SwadicalRag/wasm2lua

wasm2lua: converting WASM into Lua

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WebAssembly npm

GitHub topics

#compiler #lua #luajit #transpiler #wasi #wasm

Updated: 2021-12-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-26
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

220

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Forks: 14
Commits: 423 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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dy/jz

JS to WASM compiler

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JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#aot #assemblyscript #audio #audio-worklet #compiler #creative-coding

Updated: 2026-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-10-21
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

212

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 5,786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tmcw/wah

a slightly higher-level language superset of webassembly

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Clojure

GitHub topics

#clojure #compiler #webassembly

Updated: 2019-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-12
License: EPL-1.0
Issues: 0 open

159

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 20 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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SPY/haskell-wasm

Haskell WebAssembly Toolkit

Stack

Haskell

GitHub topics

#compiler #haskell #toolkit #webassembly

Updated: 2025-01-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-19
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 7 open

154

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 385 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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stefano/wasm-forth

A Forth implementation compiling to WebAssembly.

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Python npm pip

GitHub topics

#compiler #forth #forth-94 #interpreter #wasm #webassembly

Updated: 2019-05-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-26
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

151

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 11 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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hatashiro/kou

A minimal language compiled into wasm bytecode

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TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#compiler #programming-language #wasm

Updated: 2019-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-10
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

137

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 255 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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yiransheng/basic_rs

Original Dartmouth BASIC Interpreter/Compiler

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Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#basic #compiler #interpreter #relooper #rust #vm

Updated: 2019-01-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-02
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

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Forks: 3
Commits: 355 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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erdian718/lua

Go Lua Compiler and VM

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Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#compiler #go #js #lua #vm #wasm

Updated: 2023-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-28
License: Zlib
Issues: 1 open

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Forks: 3
Commits: 48 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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