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Hey y'all —
Some of you might be on your way to FOSDEM, or already there; if so, have fun! Looks like there won't be a WebAssembly devroom this year, but there are a few Wasm talks on the schedule.
Anyways, here are your Wasm tidbits for January:
- eBPF.party is a set of hands-on exercises to learn about eBPF. It features a browser-based live feedback editor for C code, powered by TCC (Tiny C Compiler) compiled to Wasm.
- Meet Whamm: The WebAssembly Instrumentation Framework.
- Building docfind: Fast Client-Side Search with Rust and WebAssembly has some details on how the VS Code team built a client-side search engine for their documentation.
- The 2025 Web Almanac from the Http Archive has some interesting details about how Wasm is being used on the web: "We periodically crawl the top sites on the web and record detailed information about fetched resources, used web platform APIs and features, and execution traces of each page…then crunch and analyze this data to identify trends." I was surprised at how popular .Net & Blazor are! I also learned bulk memory is the most popular post-MVP feature.
- In a similar vein, we enjoyed the Uno State of WebAssembly article. It's a good summary of what happened on the standardization and implementation sides.
- From the Bytecode Alliance: 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective. Some interesting bits of history here, told by the people who were there. Definitely worth a read. "For the group working on Wasm, the pressure to ship was intense. 'Ship as fast as you humanly can before this whole coalition falls apart,' was the prevailing sentiment, according to Wagner."
Have a great weekend!
Patrick + Mariano
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