What Happened To WebAssembly
Table Of ContentsIn The Real WorldWhat Is WebAssemblyA Note On SpeedAn Efficient MappingA compilation targetSecurity and what it enablesPortability and EmbeddabilitySpeed and size revisitedLanguage development and you On every WebAssembly discussion, there is inevitably one comment (often near the top) asking what happened. It seems to have been advertised as a world-changing advancement. Was it just oversold? Was it another JVM applet scenario, doomed to fail? I’d like to tackle this in a weirdly roundabout way because I think these sorts of questions make a few misplaced assumptions that are critical to clarify. #In The Real World Of course, WebAssembly does see real-world usage. Let’s list some examples! Godot uses WebAssembly to build games for the web. Squoosh.app uses…
