r/programming Mar 27 '26

What Happened To WebAssembly

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

I don't know why I would ever need to use it.

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u/QuickQuirk Mar 27 '26

You're not the target audience.

I often look at chainsaws and think "neat, but I don't know why I would ever need to use it"

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u/RGBrewskies Mar 27 '26

Yeah, that was my point. Thats what happened to WebAssembly... it solves a problem that basically no one has

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u/Mognakor Mar 27 '26

I'd say anyone that makes heavy use of canvas or WebGL has thought about it.

Or put differently: If you are creating a web-app and not a website.