> The design goals for a WebAssembly text format derive from the following use cases:
> View Source on a WebAssembly module, thus fitting into the Web (where every source can be viewed) in a natural way.
[1] http://webassembly.org/docs/text-format/
EDIT: looks like this [2] can convert between binary and textual format.
[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/interpreter/