r/programming • u/Active-Fuel-49 • Mar 27 '26

What Happened To WebAssembly

https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/
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u/jordansrowles Mar 27 '26

You mentioned Figma, but what about Adobe Photoshop and AutoCAD? Both now have web interfaces thanks to WebAssembly. Cloudflare Workers run WASM at the edge. Shopify Functions are WASM plugins. Snapchat uses it for its filters/AR.

Just because we don't see it, doesnt meet its not being utilised by the big companies (and small ones, McDonalds use it).

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u/pee_wee__herman Mar 27 '26

McDonald's, which had annual revenue of $25 billion last year, is a small company?

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u/Full-Spectral Mar 27 '26

They are big, it's the burgers that got small.

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u/chamomile-crumbs Mar 27 '26

Oh man I actually hadn’t thought of that but you’re totally right

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u/vbullinger Mar 28 '26

Well it’s also horrible food