WebAssembly holds great promise for the ability to create faster and more reliable dynamic websites, and it is now shipping in all major current browsers. The truth on the ground, however, is a bit more complicated: WebAssembly doesn’t natively support garbage collection, interoperation with JavaScript can be painful, and performance doesn’t always match up to expectations.
Sasha Aickin details the strengths and the limits of WebAssembly through the lens of a medium-sized project that has been ported from JavaScript to WebAssembly using Rust.
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Sasha Aickin has been working in the software industry in San Francisco for nearly 20 years. His most recent position was as the CTO of Redfin. He is currently a React core team member.
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