ISSUE 497
WebAssembly’s First Decade

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WebAssembly’s First Decade

One of the most popular posts with The New Stack readers last week marked the 10th anniversary of WebAssembly — or Wasm, to its friends. WebAssembly began a decade ago as a collaborative effort between Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. The goal, according to “Create a low-level binary instruction format for compiling older, non-web languages to run in the browser.”

Since then, its uses have expanded, with developers working to build out the component model and its accompanying ecosystem. In September, Wasm 3 was released. And one of last week’s most popular TNS posts found our reporter, Loraine Lawson, talking to Thomas Steiner, developer relations engineer at Google, about some of the emerging use cases for WebAssembly.

One such use case: Writing Business logic and then using the same code across platforms via Wasm, according to Steiner. Snapchat, for instance, does it that way. “WebAssembly can be run on the web, but also on the native platforms,” Steiner told Loraine. “They can have the same business logic run in different contexts, and they save themselves a lot of development work.”

More higher-level languages are adding support for WebAssembly, Loraine wrote: “Java, OCaml, Scala, Kotlin, Scheme and Dart are some of the languages that now target Wasm for compilation.” And now that the latest version of Wasm has introduced a new way to handle JavaScript strings, JavaScript users have new reasons to give WebAssembly a try.

Keep checking The New Stack for the latest news about this versatile technology. 

— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, TNS

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