HACKER Q&A
📣 maxwellito

Best use of WebAssembly so far?


WebAssembly has been out for a while now. Do you have some interesting uses-cases?


  👤 krapp Accepted Answer ✓
The Internet Archive using a Flash emulator written in Rust and compiled to Webassembly to preserve historic Flash animations and make them playable in modern browsers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...

https://ruffle.rs/


👤 peterbozso
For me, it's definitely Blazor: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

Initial load times could be still better (.NET 6 should improve that) and Visual Studio's Razor syntax support could be improved, but other than these, as a hardcore .NET guy, I find a lot joy in working with it.


👤 mikece
How about the interface design tool Figma?

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...


👤 ArtWomb
Emulators, of course ;)

https://vaporboy.net/


👤 yannis
PARI/GP for number theory calculations, is now in the browser thanks to WebAssemly.

https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html


👤 moxylush


👤 tiew9Vii
The interesting ones for me are Cloudflare workers and Fastly Cloud@Edge. The next generation of serverless, WebAssembly has huge potential outside the browser

👤 dingusthemingus
Not sure if youve seen this:

https://madewithwebassembly.com/


👤 avinassh
I am using it an expression evaluator in my library