The State of WebAssembly - 2024 and 2025

The State of WebAssembly – 2024 and 2025. For the fifth year in a row, I've had the privilege of writing an article on the state of WebAssembly. In this article, I start off by reviewing the WebAssembly developments during 2024 like Safari rounding out browser support for a number of features including Garbage Collection, newly available features like JavaScript String Builtins and Memory64, WASI 0.2 (formerly called Preview 2) being released, Uno Platform performance improvements, Hyperlight being open-sourced, and even a NIST report on how wasm can help improve security. Then I try to predict where I think things will go in 2025.

For the fifth year in a row, I've had the privilege of writing an article on the state of WebAssembly.

In this article, I start off by reviewing the WebAssembly developments during 2024 like Safari rounding out browser support for a number of features including Garbage Collection, newly available features like JavaScript String Builtins and Memory64, WASI 0.2 (formerly called Preview 2) being released, Uno Platform performance improvements, Hyperlight being open-sourced, and even a NIST report on how wasm can help improve security. Then I try to predict where I think things will go in 2025.

Every year we see many WebAssembly-related improvements and 2024 was no exception. It's easy to get caught up waiting on the next amazing feature but the reality is that wasm and WASI are already very capable as we can see from the increased adoption.

The article can be found here: The State of WebAssembly - 2024 and 2025

The State of WebAssembly: 2023-2024

The State of WebAssembly – 2023 and 2024. For the fourth year in a row, I've had the privilege of writing an article on the state of WebAssembly. In this article, I start off by reviewing the WebAssembly developments during 2023 around Garbage Collection, Tail Calls, fixed-width SIMD, multiple memories, improvements in .NET, and work happening with the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the Component Model. Then I try to predict where I think things will go in 2024.

For the fourth year in a row, I've had the privilege of writing an article on the state of WebAssembly.

In this article, I start off by reviewing the WebAssembly developments during 2023 around Garbage Collection, Tail Calls, fixed-width SIMD, multiple memories, improvements in .NET, and work happening with the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) and the Component Model. Then I try to predict where I think things will go in 2024.

A lot happened last year and 2024 is already shaping up to be an exciting year! It feels like WebAssembly's use is about to take off both as normal WebAssembly modules and as WebAssembly components with WASI.

The article can be found here: The State of WebAssembly: 2023-2024

ConFoo Online 2021

I am very pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at ConFoo Online 2021! To flow with the conference theme, I titled my talk "Joining forces to free WebAssembly from the browser".

I am very pleased to announce that I'll be speaking at ConFoo Online 2021!

As a fan of Star Wars, the organizer decided that this year's conference theme will be "a new hope" because of COVID-19 and the feeling that the world needs hope that things will improve. To flow with this theme, I titled my talk "Joining forces to free WebAssembly from the browser".

In this talk you'll learn about the WebAssembly System Interface proposal (WASI) that defines a standard for using WebAssembly outside the browser in a secure way. You'll see several examples including interacting with a WebAssembly module from your C# code and at the command line.

The conference will be virtual this year and will take place from February 22nd to 26th. You can find the full list of sessions here: https://confoo.ca/en/yul2021/sessions

Hope to see you there.