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The rise of WebAssembly
fabio ballasina (CC0) In just four short years, WebAssembly has broken free of its origins as a useful browser-based technology and now powers some of the world’s most complex distributed applications, from streaming platforms like Disney+ to e-commerce powerhouse Shopify. WebAssembly’s journey beyond the browser WebAssembly , or WASM for short, was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and first published in 2018. It is, in their words, a “compilation target,” which means developers can bring their own code—typically Rust , C++, or AssemblyScript —and WebAssembly compiles it to bytecode to execute on the web browser at high speed....