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