WebAssembly

6 engineers on Hacker News describe using WebAssembly first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.

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6first-hand users
4in production
endorse 3mixed 1regret 0uses, no opinion

“I've been using WebAssembly as a compilation target for various projects for the past four years, and have been fairly happy with the state of documentation.”

endorse · personal · 4 yr · sestep · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we moved to Wasm, which is fast + sandboxed + cross-language.”

endorse · production · isaacimagine · 2025-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we still cannot free memory!”

mixed · production · fathyb · 2024-05-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use WASM heavily, but outside the browser and integrated into our own "game" client & server as a powerful sandboxed cross-platform runtime environment.”

endorse · production · repi · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run the entirety of SQLite, compiled to wasm, in the browser, among other things.”

neutral · production · gary_bernhardt · 2020-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we even made a few pocs with Xamarin and Wasm.”

neutral · personal · eksemplar · 2018-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?