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Ask HN: Best use of WebAssembly so far?

21 points by maxwellito 5y ago

WebAssembly has been out for a while now. Do you have some interesting uses-cases?

ArtWomb 5y ago
Emulators, of course ;) https://vaporboy.net/ https://vaporboy.net/
yannis 5y ago
PARI/GP for number theory calculations, is now in the browser thanks to WebAssemly. https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html
mikece 5y ago
How about the interface design tool Figma? https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/ https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...
- maxwellito 5y ago
  Oh yes! I love Figma and WebAssembly must have a big part in the responsiveness of this wonderful application.
moxylush 5y ago
https://squoosh.app/ https://squoosh.app/
krapp 5y ago
The Internet Archive using a Flash emulator written in Rust and compiled to Webassembly to preserve historic Flash animations and make them playable in modern browsers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128 https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/ https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo... https://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/
peterbozso 5y ago
For me, it's definitely Blazor: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor Initial load times could be still better (.NET 6 should improve that) and Visual Studio's Razor syntax support could be improved, but other than these, as a hardcore .NET guy, I find a lot joy in working with it.
avinassh 5y ago
I am using it an expression evaluator in my library
tiew9Vii 5y ago
The interesting ones for me are Cloudflare workers and Fastly Cloud@Edge. The next generation of serverless, WebAssembly has huge potential outside the browser
dingusthemingus 5y ago
Not sure if youve seen this: https://madewithwebassembly.com/ https://madewithwebassembly.com/
twright 5y ago
Lichess using Stockfish https://lichess.org/blog/X9uXyxUAANCqN1OF/stockfish-12-on-lichess https://lichess.org/blog/X9uXyxUAANCqN1OF/stockfish-12-on-li...

21 points by maxwellito 5y ago

WebAssembly has been out for a while now. Do you have some interesting uses-cases?

ArtWomb 5y ago

Emulators, of course ;) https://vaporboy.net/ https://vaporboy.net/

yannis 5y ago

PARI/GP for number theory calculations, is now in the browser thanks to WebAssemly. https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html

mikece 5y ago

How about the interface design tool Figma? https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/ https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

maxwellito 5y ago
Oh yes! I love Figma and WebAssembly must have a big part in the responsiveness of this wonderful application.

moxylush 5y ago

https://squoosh.app/ https://squoosh.app/

krapp 5y ago

The Internet Archive using a Flash emulator written in Rust and compiled to Webassembly to preserve historic Flash animations and make them playable in modern browsers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128 https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/ https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo... https://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/

peterbozso 5y ago

For me, it's definitely Blazor: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor Initial load times could be still better (.NET 6 should improve that) and Visual Studio's Razor syntax support could be improved, but other than these, as a hardcore .NET guy, I find a lot joy in working with it.

avinassh 5y ago

I am using it an expression evaluator in my library

tiew9Vii 5y ago

The interesting ones for me are Cloudflare workers and Fastly Cloud@Edge. The next generation of serverless, WebAssembly has huge potential outside the browser

dingusthemingus 5y ago

Not sure if youve seen this: https://madewithwebassembly.com/ https://madewithwebassembly.com/

twright 5y ago

Lichess using Stockfish https://lichess.org/blog/X9uXyxUAANCqN1OF/stockfish-12-on-lichess https://lichess.org/blog/X9uXyxUAANCqN1OF/stockfish-12-on-li...