Forrester on WebAssembly for Developers: Frontend to Backend

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There are a lot of things to love about WebAssembly — but how do developers decide when to use it? To learn more about what frontend developers need to know, I sat down with https://www.linkedin.com/in/acornwall/, a senior analyst with Forrester who specializes in the application development space.

Typically, developers will take the C implementation of Python, compile it using a compiler that outputs WebAssembly, he said.

“That is easier to do than converting Python to WebAssembly itself,” he added.”Once it’s in WebAssembly, it doesn’t matter.

“Other than that, the other interesting use case for WebAssembly on web front ends is going to be not so much for JavaScript developers, but for developers of other things.”

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