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WebAssembly adoption: Is slow and steady winning the race?
We talk to a WebAssembly co-creator and other industry experts about its state of adoption, Java use cases, the importance of WASI, and more.
In that, he expressed his disappointment at the AssemblyScript project withdrawing its support for WASI (WebAssembly System Interface), which was widely viewed as detrimental to adoption and something that would lead to greater fragmentation in the Wasm ecosystem. As the founder of a company specifically developing tools to help engineers leverage WebAssembly, Manuel is in a great position to track and follow particular adoption trends. He offers some examples: “For smart contracts, the story is ‘deterministic, verifiably correct, and efficient execution targetable from mainstream languages’... for embedded systems, it's ‘weird CPUs look pretty much the same now and you can't brick the device accidentally’."
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