Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care? (tomassetti.me)
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kbumsik Jan 18, 2018 | on: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler | context

Yes. The C lib will be compiled into wasm. You can use the wasm-compiled code in a browser through JS wrappers. So you can say importing C lib on JS client side anyway.

Note that wasm's main objective is to run non-JS code on browsers, not for a faster JS.

Here is the best overview and tutorial I've ever seen in HN , if you are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958827