Intertech WebAssembly (Wasm) Services & System Integration Take Your Applications To Another Level!
Intertech’s WebAssembly developers help you run coded applications written in multiple languages, never intended to run outside a desktop, …run on the web, …through a web browser, …at near-native speeds!
You are no longer limited to one or the other, desktop or web. Take a look below to find out more about how and why WebAssembly may be necessary to you and your business, for individual applications or use in Microservices.
What & Why WebAssembly (Wasm)!
WebAssembly In Simple Terms — WebAssembly.org
What Is WebAssembly
The Big Take Away
Wasm Features
- Efficient and Fast: The WebAssembly takes advantage of common hardware capabilities on a range of platforms and allows applciations to run at native speed.
- Safe: A WebAssembly encoded application is placed in a memory-safe sandboxed execution environment and enforces the same-origin and permissions security policies of the browser
- Becomes Part Of Open Web: Maintains the versionless, feature-tested, backwards-compatible nature of the web
Who’s Using WebAssembly
- Autocad, one of the oldest computer drafting software’s was able to make a web version of their application using WebAssembly.
- Unity, a gaming engine with a web player made using WebAssembly providing a performant 2D and 3D gaming that would otherwise not be possible.
- TensorFlow, a JavaScript library used for machine learning modeling. WebAssembly was integrated for better, more performant modeling.
- GoogleEarth, C/C++ codebases for native applications were ported to the web for performant 3D graphics in the browser.
- Blazor, one of Microsoft’s newest programming frameworks allows you to write C# code that compiles into WebAssembly that executes client side.
At madewithwebassembly.com you can see a list of projects made using WebAssembly.
How Does WebAssembly Work?
To begin with a developer writes code in a WASM supported language (C++, Rust, C# etc..) and then compiles that code into a WASM binary format that is then able to run in the browser. For example, you can compile a C++ library into WASM format and then run functions from the library in a JavaScript web environment. Each supported language compiles to WASM through a unique library or toolchain. For C++, a compiler toolchain called “Emscripten” is used. For Rust, there is a tool called “wasm-pack”. For C# , you build the application with Blazor and Visual Studio (newer versions) handles the rest.
Why Would You Use WebAssembly?
There are a few regular use cases for going to WebAssembly as a solution.
- Bottlenecks in your application: Areas in your application that a 50% increase in execution time or more consistent execution time would drastically improve the end users experience. Maybe your application has some backend business logic and you want to eliminate the server usage and the time it takes to communicate with it by executing that logic directly on the client.
- Filing a technology gap: Google created an application called “Sqoosh,” used for image compression and processing. The application takes advantage of API’s and processing that traditional JavaScript couldn’t achieve so they turned to WASM.
- Making use of non-web friendly code: “Sqoosh” is also a good example of making use of non-web friendly code, it uses multiple libraries written in a variety of languages compiled into WASM to deliver a wide range of image processing functionality. The idea is, code exists already that does something you want to do on the web, maybe WASM can be the solution that brings that code to the web.
Why Is System Integration With The Web Important?
How Does WebAssembly Work With javaScript?
Why Does WebAssembly Need JavaScript?
WebAssembly is turning out to be a groundbreaking addition to the web development world. It’s got the support of the right communities and is currently stable and fully supported, so the future is bright. It’s not going to be the tool you use for everything, but when used correctly, it can be a powerful enhancement to your web application.
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WebAssembly — Overview
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WebAssembly — Compiling a WebAssembly module from a range of languages, to include C#, Kotlin, Swift, and more…
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WebAssembly — Browser Roadmap
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WebAssembly — FAQ
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