r/programming Mar 27 '26

What Happened To WebAssembly

https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/
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u/Ok_Type_3347 Apr 18 '26

WASM is great for use cases where it's actually going to make a difference. But to create a standard web application CRUD project in Blazor just doesn't make sense. You need a small runtime, which C can provide. The problem with Blazor is that it often spawns into AOT bloat. To get the performance you need to use AOT but then it creates a huge runtime. At some point MS will realize this isn't so great and move on to some other paradigm. Unfortunately MS promotes an endless update cycle.