WASM Like it's 2024

From The New Stack, WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race?, a fair summary of the state of Web Assembly in 2024.

I’ve used Web Assembly a few times in experiments and am still disappointed by the landscape around the technology. It’s not without thorns, crocodile pits, and some swamp gas. Even still, I see it as a way forward for many applications that want to enable cross platform plugins, enable efficient reuse of code that wasn’t designed for execution in multiple environments, and a robust sandbox execution environment.

It’s not an effective replacement for Docker, but Docker isn’t an effective replacement for many of the capabilities provided by Web Assembly. I personally don’t mind and don’t see them as competitors.