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Topic: 10 Years of WebAssembly

view this post on Zulip Bailey Hayes (Jan 28 2026 at 21:40):

Checkout the newest blog on bytecodealliance.org! From the greatest hack of all time (asm.js) to running in billions of browsers, edge networks, and embedded systems, @Eric Gregory's article includes so many fascinating stories from the days of Wasm's infancy and what it took to make it happen.

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/ten-years-of-webassembly-a-retrospective

Bytecode Alliance
Welcome to the Bytecode Alliance
10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective
In April of 2015, Luke Wagner made the first commits to a new repository called WebAssembly/design, adding a high-level design document for a “binary format to serve as a web compilation target.”

view this post on Zulip Bailey Hayes (Jan 28 2026 at 21:40):

And if you're on the cheeto site, help us make the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799014

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