diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e25a968a..5273c3cb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -197,10 +197,6 @@ if(NOT EMSCRIPTEN)
     )
 endif()
 
-if(EMSCRIPTEN)
-    list(APPEND XEUS_CPP_SRC src/xinterpreter_wasm.cpp)
-endif()
-
 set(XEUS_CPP_MAIN_SRC
     src/main.cpp
 )
diff --git a/include/xeus-cpp/xinterpreter_wasm.hpp b/include/xeus-cpp/xinterpreter_wasm.hpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b1d54c5..00000000
--- a/include/xeus-cpp/xinterpreter_wasm.hpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/************************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2023, xeus-cpp contributors                                        *
- * Copyright (c) 2023, Johan Mabille, Loic Gouarin, Sylvain Corlay, Wolf Vollprecht *
- *                                                                                  *
- * Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.                         *
-  *                                                                                 *
- * The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.         *
- ************************************************************************************/
-
-#ifndef XEUS_CPP_INTERPRETER_WASM_HPP
-#define XEUS_CPP_INTERPRETER_WASM_HPP
-
-#include "xinterpreter.hpp"
-#include "xeus_cpp_config.hpp"
-
-namespace xcpp
-{
-    class XEUS_CPP_API wasm_interpreter : public interpreter
-    {
-    public:
-
-        wasm_interpreter(int argc = 0, char** argv = nullptr);
-        virtual ~wasm_interpreter() = default;
-
-    };
-}
-
-#endif
diff --git a/src/main_emscripten_kernel.cpp b/src/main_emscripten_kernel.cpp
index 555b596a..ae638793 100644
--- a/src/main_emscripten_kernel.cpp
+++ b/src/main_emscripten_kernel.cpp
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 #include <xeus/xembind.hpp>
 
-#include "xeus-cpp/xinterpreter_wasm.hpp"
+#include "xeus-cpp/xinterpreter.hpp"
 
 template <class interpreter_type>
 static interpreter_type* builder_with_args(emscripten::val js_args)
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ static interpreter_type* builder_with_args(emscripten::val js_args)
 EMSCRIPTEN_BINDINGS(my_module)
 {
     xeus::export_core();
-    using interpreter_type = xcpp::wasm_interpreter;
+    using interpreter_type = xcpp::interpreter;
     xeus::export_kernel<interpreter_type, &builder_with_args<interpreter_type>>("xkernel");
 }
diff --git a/src/xinterpreter_wasm.cpp b/src/xinterpreter_wasm.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e65bdb9..00000000
--- a/src/xinterpreter_wasm.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-/************************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2023, xeus-cpp contributors                                        *
- * Copyright (c) 2023, Martin Vassilev                                              *
- *                                                                                  *
- * Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.                         *
- *                                                                                  *
- * The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.         *
- ************************************************************************************/
-
-#include "xeus/xinterpreter.hpp"
-#include "xeus/xsystem.hpp"
-
-#include "xeus-cpp/xinterpreter.hpp"
-#include "xeus-cpp/xinterpreter_wasm.hpp"
-
-namespace xcpp
-{
-    wasm_interpreter::wasm_interpreter(int argc, char** argv)
-        : interpreter(argc, argv)
-    {
-    }
-}