Introduction to WebAssembly for .NET Developers
Guest Blog Post by Antonii Georgiev I really feel that we are on the brink of a revolution. It’s still very early in the revolution, but I feel like WebAssembly is going to completely change the way we think of web applications. WebAssembly has slowly been stirring up fire since its creation, but why exactly should you be interested in it? Firstly, what is WebAssembly? WebAssembly operates on a stack-based machine that allows web applications to run near-native speed by using a binary format. It can be generated by higher level programming languages like C++ or C#. The idea is that it runs a lot faster than JavaScript. It’s quite efficient, meaning it’s fast to load and execute. It’s safe and portable just the way JavaScript is. You don’t have to deal with memory overflow exploits and things of that nature. Lastly, it’s portable so it will run in almost any modern browser nowadays. WebAssembly is not intended to kill JavaScript, and it probably won’t. Maybe someday it might replace JavaScript in certain scenarios, altering the way we write our web apps just enough that we may end up writing the majority of our applications in an entirely different
