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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by LunaSea on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:25PM (#39992545)
Really? I can't think of a mainstream (as in used daily) site that uses WASM.

Do you have some in mind?

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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by azakai on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:26PM (#39993359)
Sure, many major sites use it, such as Zoom, Google Sheets, and Photoshop. As the article mentions, you wouldn't know they are using Wasm under the hood unless you open the devtools and inspect the details.

Many more examples, such as those mentioned in this talk about Wasm usage in Google:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En8cj6xlv4

They mention Google Photos, Google Meet, Google Earth, TensorFlow.js, Ink, CanvasKit, Flutter, etc. And that is just inside Google - many other companies are using it, big and small, such as Figma, Unity, Adobe, etc.

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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by lxgr on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:14PM (#39995252)
Lichess and Chess.com use it for local position evaluation and playing against the computer (in analysis).
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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by emporas on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:23AM (#39998351)
Yep, they compiled Stockfish to wasm. Now everyone has access to the best chess engine in the world, right there in the browser, no need to install anything. Really nifty.
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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by callahad on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:45PM (#39992794)
Figma has been powered by WebAssembly for the past 7 years.
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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by kamikazeturtles on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:46PM (#39994979)
What parts of Figma though? Is it just used for cpu intensive operations like triangulation of svgs to render in webgl or is the site's core logic all done is wasm?

I'm sorry, I don't use Figma but I'm really curious about its tech stack

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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by azakai on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:40PM (#39995489)
They have a bunch of nice blogposts about that:

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

The main part of the app is in wasm, I believe (it's in C++ that they compile).

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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by hermanradtke on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:28PM (#39992573)
https://madewithwebassembly.com/

I see a few major sites and some major plugins. The definition of "mainstream (as in used daily) site" may differ between groups.

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Re:WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race? by CharlesW on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:26PM (#39993369)
uBlock Origin first used Wasm in 2018: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/03/ublock-origin-performance-...
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