WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps
I wonder where the world is going with this. At first glance it looks like webassembly is a potential faster replacement for javascript in the browser. However, javascript is an increasingly popular language everywhere. I&#x27;m not sure people will want to move away from it for most development. The part that is actually causing performance problems with web application is the HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;DOM layer which was not designed as a UI widget library but as a document rendering and styling framework.<p>Webassembly&#x2F;Webgl standardization enables the creation high performance replacements for HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;dom.<p>We might end up with applications that are still mostly written in javascript but that call into new webassembly&#x2F;webgl ui frameworks for rendering instead of into the html&#x2F;css&#x2F;dom layer.