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Ask HN: Is WASM Viable?

7 pointsby digitalsanctumover 3 years ago
I haven&#x27;t worked with WASM yet but the promise of being portable and performance are appealing. I&#x27;d like to be able to write something in Rust and have it run natively on either the client or server.<p>What&#x27;s your opinion on WASM&#x27;s viability? Are there any references of it being used in production successfully?

3 comments

open-source-uxover 3 years ago
&quot;<i>Are there any references of it being used in production successfully?</i>&quot;<p>Figma, the hugely popular design tool that runs in a browser uses WebAssembly. They have an old blog entry from 2017 talking about Web Assembly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.figma.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.figma.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...</a><p>I was sceptical a complex, feature-rich design tool could be possible in the browser, but Figma proved me wrong. Not only that, Figma has proved to be serious competition to rival Sketch (a native desktop app for the Mac), and to Adobe XD (native Mac and Windows desktop apps).
emteyczover 3 years ago
What you want is available today, in all major browsers. Yes, very viable IMHO.
rdbellover 3 years ago
Lichess uses wasm for chess analysis and it works quite well