Trends Report

WebAssembly: A Quiet Revolution

March 15th, 2022
With contributors:
Chris Gardner , Zachary Stone , Emma Goldberg , Ian McPherson

Summary

If you haven’t been paying close attention, you might have missed the dramatic changes to what you can implement in your browser and serverless functions. You have more language options than just JavaScript. Things that took forever to run are now responding quickly, and websites are doing things that you used to do on the desktop. WebAssembly is a big reason for this. Read this report to learn why bytecode is back and what that means for you.

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