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WASM first appeared in 2017. It still hasn't really reached a breakthrough. Billions use HTML+CSS+JavaScript. Who really uses WASM? There are of course users,

WASM first appeared in 2017. It still hasn't really reached a breakthrough. Billions use HTML+CSS+JavaScript. Who really uses WASM? There are of course users, but very, very few in absolute numbers. Many projects are not web-based really. For Autodesk Fusion, as one example for many, I have some mega-slow application that takes forever to work with in some cases on my laptop (it is not the fastest laptop, but I recently tested this on a faster desktop computer with 32GB RAM and it is still slow to no ends; using it all WASM based would be even slower I bet. That's not winning anyone over ...).

esafak 4mo ago
WASM made Figma.
aatd86 4mo ago
WASM is super useful for FFI in some env
h4ch1 4mo ago
I wrote an Unreal file parser in C# and use it in our in-house web based DAM. It was much more ergonomic and performant than writing it in Javascript.
simonw 4mo ago
According to https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/4689 https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity... WebAssembly runs on about 6.11% of Chrome page loads, up from 3.37% in January 2024.
- pjmlp 4mo ago
  Probably all of that is Figma.
  - afiori 4mo ago
    Sure, figma is 6% of the internet
    - pjmlp 4mo ago
      There are many designers out there.
  - rubzah 4mo ago
    Suno also runs on WASM. Pretty good showcases, both, imho.
Deukhoofd 4mo ago
When I last played with it checking out its capabilities, I found the thing I was mostly missing to really make use of it was the thing referenced in this article, the Component Model. Without a type model and binary specifications, interop was made a lot harder than it'd have been otherwise. Now that that's in, it becomes a lot more useful. I was mostly looking at it for its state as being a cross-platform supported output platform of bytecode that's fairly well sandboxed. That makes it an excellent target for things like running untrusted plugins in an application in a performant manner.
afiori 4mo ago
oh no, a new edge case tech has not replace the most popular tech stack ever, yet another failure after webGL
breve 4mo ago
> Who really uses WASM? Everyone who uses Amazon Prime Video: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-... Everyone who uses Google Sheets: https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc

esafak 4mo ago

WASM made Figma.

aatd86 4mo ago

WASM is super useful for FFI in some env

h4ch1 4mo ago

I wrote an Unreal file parser in C# and use it in our in-house web based DAM. It was much more ergonomic and performant than writing it in Javascript.

simonw 4mo ago

According to https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/4689 https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity... WebAssembly runs on about 6.11% of Chrome page loads, up from 3.37% in January 2024.

pjmlp 4mo ago
Probably all of that is Figma.
- afiori 4mo ago
  Sure, figma is 6% of the internet
  - pjmlp 4mo ago
    There are many designers out there.
- rubzah 4mo ago
  Suno also runs on WASM. Pretty good showcases, both, imho.

Deukhoofd 4mo ago

When I last played with it checking out its capabilities, I found the thing I was mostly missing to really make use of it was the thing referenced in this article, the Component Model. Without a type model and binary specifications, interop was made a lot harder than it'd have been otherwise. Now that that's in, it becomes a lot more useful. I was mostly looking at it for its state as being a cross-platform supported output platform of bytecode that's fairly well sandboxed. That makes it an excellent target for things like running untrusted plugins in an application in a performant manner.

afiori 4mo ago

oh no, a new edge case tech has not replace the most popular tech stack ever, yet another failure after webGL

breve 4mo ago

> Who really uses WASM? Everyone who uses Amazon Prime Video: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-... Everyone who uses Google Sheets: https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc