Source: thenewstack.io
Wasm for the Frontend: A Look at Developer Use Cases
When Second State started in 2019, the major use case for WebAssembly was in the blockchain, to run smart contracts. The Austin-based startup instead focuses on offering support for https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge, a WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge and decentralized applications. WasmEdge is open source and an official sandbox project hosted by the https://cncf.io/?utm_content=inline-mention, an open source, vendor-neutral hub.
And you have WebAssembly runtimes in all major browsers, but those are all WebAssembly runtimes written by, say, https://thenewstack.io/google-brings-rust-into-chromium-project/ and https://thenewstack.io/apple-plans-to-run-most-of-its-compute-management-on-kubernetes/.
Another reason frontend developers should know about WasmEdge and other Wasm runtimes is that frontend developers are doing more backend work, he said.
And you have WebAssembly runtimes in all major browsers, but those are all WebAssembly runtimes written by, say, https://thenewstack.io/google-brings-rust-into-chromium-project/ and https://thenewstack.io/apple-plans-to-run-most-of-its-compute-management-on-kubernetes/.
Another reason frontend developers should know about WasmEdge and other Wasm runtimes is that frontend developers are doing more backend work, he said.
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