The rise of WebAssembly
In just four short years, WebAssembly has broken free of its origins as a useful browser-based technology and now powers some of the world’s most complex distributed applications, from streaming platforms like Disney+ to e-commerce powerhouse Shopify.WebAssembly’s journey beyond the browser WebAssembly, or WASM for short, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and first published in 2018. It is, in their words, a “compilation target,” which means developers can bring their own code—typically Rust, C++, or AssemblyScript—and WebAssembly compiles it to bytecode to execute on the web browser at high speed.To read this article in full, please click here
In just four short years, WebAssembly has broken free of its origins as a useful browser-based technology and now powers some of the world’s most complex distributed applications, from streaming platforms like Disney+ to e-commerce powerhouse Shopify.
WebAssembly’s journey beyond the browser
WebAssembly, or WASM for short, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and first published in 2018. It is, in their words, a “compilation target,” which means developers can bring their own code—typically Rust, C++, or AssemblyScript—and WebAssembly compiles it to bytecode to execute on the web browser at high speed.