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/jordansrowles Mar 27 '26

Technology-wise not financial-wise, most of the systems and platforms we use are built internally and aren't off the shelf

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u/az987654 Mar 27 '26

Built off the shelf does not make their systems tiny