2 years ago

WebAssembly (WASM) has captured everybody’s attention because it allows developers to write code in their high-level language of choice and is platform agnostic. The recently released The State of WebAssembly 2021 shows that Rust is far and away that choice, but what other languages will be used by the next generation of WASM development? According to a 249-person poll by the WebAssembly Weekly newsletter and its broader community, 69% of WASM developers have some experience using Rust for WebAssembly development. Some combinations of C++ or Emscripten are utilized by 51% of those surveyed, followed by 35% using AssemblyScript, a language created for WASM that compiles a variant of TypeScript.

WebAssembly is used for game development by 27%, for serverless by 24% and containers by 21%.