webassembly 2025

WebAssembly’s transformation from a browser-only performance trick into a general-purpose, portable runtime accelerated through 2024 and into 2025. What started as a compact binary target for web-heavy computation now powers edge functions, serverless FaaS, secure plugin sandboxes, desktop apps, and even parts of cloud-native stacks. In 2025 the conversation is no longer “is WebAssembly useful?”…