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Ask HN: Best use of WebAssembly so far?

by maxwellito on 8/12/21, 12:50 PM with 11 comments

• by krapp on 8/12/21, 4:38 PM

  The Internet Archive using a Flash emulator written in Rust and compiled to Webassembly to preserve historic Flash animations and make them playable in modern browsers.

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128

  https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...

  https://ruffle.rs/

• by peterbozso on 8/12/21, 4:51 PM

  For me, it's definitely Blazor: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

  Initial load times could be still better (.NET 6 should improve that) and Visual Studio's Razor syntax support could be improved, but other than these, as a hardcore .NET guy, I find a lot joy in working with it.

• by mikece on 8/12/21, 1:12 PM

  How about the interface design tool Figma?

  https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...

• by ArtWomb on 8/12/21, 12:58 PM

  Emulators, of course ;)

  https://vaporboy.net/

• by yannis on 8/12/21, 1:08 PM

  PARI/GP for number theory calculations, is now in the browser thanks to WebAssemly.

  https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/gp.html

• by moxylush on 8/12/21, 1:17 PM

  https://squoosh.app/

• by twright on 8/14/21, 12:51 AM

  Lichess using Stockfish

  https://lichess.org/blog/X9uXyxUAANCqN1OF/stockfish-12-on-li...

• by tiew9Vii on 8/13/21, 9:04 AM

  The interesting ones for me are Cloudflare workers and Fastly Cloud@Edge. The next generation of serverless, WebAssembly has huge potential outside the browser

• by dingusthemingus on 8/13/21, 1:51 PM

  Not sure if youve seen this:

  https://madewithwebassembly.com/

• by avinassh on 8/12/21, 5:24 PM

  I am using it an expression evaluator in my library