WebAssembly: The Ultimate Guide

2 years ago thenewstack.io

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https://thenewstack.io/what-is-webassembly/ is arguably beginning to live up to its hype. Although whether it realizes its potential or not remains to be seen and its ultimate success largely depends on factors beyond its worth as a technology.

This prospect of developers becoming laser-focused on writing business code, and business code only, is what makes Wasm so exciting.”

Wasm serves to make JavaScript code more secure when Wasm is used as a “compiler on steroids” with which JavaScript applications can be deployed.

Wasm Frameworks, like CNCF’s https://thenewstack.io/cncf-welcomes-webassembly-based-wasmcloud-as-a-sandbox-project/, extend the Wasm security footprint further by providing higher-level abstractions, reducing the amount of code that developers embed in each application.

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