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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
WASM initially promised performance gains and greater portability for web applications, but now is making an impact across a growing number of environments.
Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s container orchestration platform, adding proxy and WebAssembly support.
by Oscar Spencer recently presented Grain, a new strongly-typed, high-level language that compiles to WebAssembly. Grain includes functional programming features (e.g., type inference, pattern matching, closures) while allowing mutable variables. Grain also has a standard library with composite data structures (Option, Stack, Result) and system calls (e.g., I/O, process handling). In a talk at the WebAssembly Summit 2021, Spencer went through the main characteristics of Grain, a programming language that he said is made exclusively for WebAssembly, its only compile target. The Grain language ...