From e6da5fb64f5962cfc3e3d757ba3b1fbc45002a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Steiner Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:56:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add States of WebAssembly blog post --- _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md diff --git a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..76cbd728 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: 'The States of WebAssembly' +author: 'Thomas Steiner' +--- + +This week didn't see just one _State of WebAssembly_ posts, but two, so I decided it's time to feature them. + +Uno Platform's [Gerard Gallant](https://cggallant.blogspot.com/) wrote [The State of WebAssembly – 2025 and 2026](https://platform.uno/blog/the-state-of-webassembly-2025-2026/) in which he recaps the events of 2025 and previews what 2026 could bring to this rapidly evolving technology. He starts with some Wasm additions and improvements in the Safari browser, to then cover the latest and greatest developments in features like Relaxed SIMD, JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI), WebAssembly CSP, Wide Arithmetic, Stack Switching, and Source Phase Imports. Next, he looks at Wasm support in Kotlin and .NET, covers the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm debugging, and looks at some stats around Wasm's adoption. + +The yearly [Web Almanac](https://almanac.httparchive.org/) from the [HTTP Archive](https://httparchive.org/) community, again after [2022](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/webassembly) and [2021](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/webassembly), features a [chapter on WebAssembly](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/webassembly) in which author and analyst [Nimesh Vadgama](https://ops-ml-architect.blogspot.com/) covers Wasm in 2025. The report finds that 0.35% of desktop sites and 0.28% of mobile sites are using WebAssembly. A curious stat is that of the largest Wasm file, which weighs 228 MB, but the report also covers more down to earth statistics like the used features, the source languages people compiled from, and others. The [raw data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16z2MNwq8FFbuNYcJJZceML6rB5VAmBXNNHZy5FZuf8g/edit) and the used [queries](https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/tree/main/sql/2025/webassembly/) (the HTTP Archive is queryable on BigQuery) are available if you want to dive deeper. + +![Cartoon Web Almanac characters performing scientific experiments on various code symbols resulting in ones and zeros coming out of the other end.](https://almanac.httparchive.org/static/images/2021/webassembly/hero_lg.avif) + +In other interesting Wasm news, Microsoft's [João Moreno](https://github.com/joaomoreno) blogged about [docfind](https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/01/15/docfind), a fast client-side search driven by Rust and WebAssembly that is in use on the [VS Code website](https://code.visualstudio.com/). From 013a0daec8462b8718ca264acb0d75ee9e5744cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Steiner Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:58:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Add header --- _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md index 76cbd728..6615574b 100644 --- a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md +++ b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ title: 'The States of WebAssembly' author: 'Thomas Steiner' --- +# The States of WebAssembly + +_Published on January 21, 2026 by +[Thomas Steiner](https://github.com/tomayac)._ + This week didn't see just one _State of WebAssembly_ posts, but two, so I decided it's time to feature them. Uno Platform's [Gerard Gallant](https://cggallant.blogspot.com/) wrote [The State of WebAssembly – 2025 and 2026](https://platform.uno/blog/the-state-of-webassembly-2025-2026/) in which he recaps the events of 2025 and previews what 2026 could bring to this rapidly evolving technology. He starts with some Wasm additions and improvements in the Safari browser, to then cover the latest and greatest developments in features like Relaxed SIMD, JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI), WebAssembly CSP, Wide Arithmetic, Stack Switching, and Source Phase Imports. Next, he looks at Wasm support in Kotlin and .NET, covers the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm debugging, and looks at some stats around Wasm's adoption. From 4814388e60d98be23c74d964aa46806aaa5e3c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Steiner Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:38:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md Co-authored-by: Derek Schuff --- _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md index 6615574b..1783fe34 100644 --- a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md +++ b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ _Published on January 21, 2026 by This week didn't see just one _State of WebAssembly_ posts, but two, so I decided it's time to feature them. -Uno Platform's [Gerard Gallant](https://cggallant.blogspot.com/) wrote [The State of WebAssembly – 2025 and 2026](https://platform.uno/blog/the-state-of-webassembly-2025-2026/) in which he recaps the events of 2025 and previews what 2026 could bring to this rapidly evolving technology. He starts with some Wasm additions and improvements in the Safari browser, to then cover the latest and greatest developments in features like Relaxed SIMD, JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI), WebAssembly CSP, Wide Arithmetic, Stack Switching, and Source Phase Imports. Next, he looks at Wasm support in Kotlin and .NET, covers the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm debugging, and looks at some stats around Wasm's adoption. +Uno Platform's [Gerard Gallant](https://cggallant.blogspot.com/) wrote [The State of WebAssembly – 2025 and 2026](https://platform.uno/blog/the-state-of-webassembly-2025-2026/) in which he recaps the events of 2025 and previews what 2026 could bring to this rapidly evolving technology. He starts with some Wasm additions and improvements in the Safari browser, and then covers the latest and greatest developments in features like Relaxed SIMD, JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI), WebAssembly CSP, Wide Arithmetic, Stack Switching, and Source Phase Imports. Next, he looks at Wasm support in Kotlin and .NET, covers the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm debugging, and looks at some stats around Wasm's adoption. The yearly [Web Almanac](https://almanac.httparchive.org/) from the [HTTP Archive](https://httparchive.org/) community, again after [2022](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/webassembly) and [2021](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/webassembly), features a [chapter on WebAssembly](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/webassembly) in which author and analyst [Nimesh Vadgama](https://ops-ml-architect.blogspot.com/) covers Wasm in 2025. The report finds that 0.35% of desktop sites and 0.28% of mobile sites are using WebAssembly. A curious stat is that of the largest Wasm file, which weighs 228 MB, but the report also covers more down to earth statistics like the used features, the source languages people compiled from, and others. The [raw data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16z2MNwq8FFbuNYcJJZceML6rB5VAmBXNNHZy5FZuf8g/edit) and the used [queries](https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/tree/main/sql/2025/webassembly/) (the HTTP Archive is queryable on BigQuery) are available if you want to dive deeper. From 0c8080afd05e3fd7ce634e26c9a1d107c7221f1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Steiner Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:40:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Update _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md Co-authored-by: Derek Schuff --- _posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md index 1783fe34..1de51dc3 100644 --- a/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md +++ b/_posts/2026-01-21-states-of-webassembly.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This week didn't see just one _State of WebAssembly_ posts, but two, so I decide Uno Platform's [Gerard Gallant](https://cggallant.blogspot.com/) wrote [The State of WebAssembly – 2025 and 2026](https://platform.uno/blog/the-state-of-webassembly-2025-2026/) in which he recaps the events of 2025 and previews what 2026 could bring to this rapidly evolving technology. He starts with some Wasm additions and improvements in the Safari browser, and then covers the latest and greatest developments in features like Relaxed SIMD, JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI), WebAssembly CSP, Wide Arithmetic, Stack Switching, and Source Phase Imports. Next, he looks at Wasm support in Kotlin and .NET, covers the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm debugging, and looks at some stats around Wasm's adoption. -The yearly [Web Almanac](https://almanac.httparchive.org/) from the [HTTP Archive](https://httparchive.org/) community, again after [2022](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/webassembly) and [2021](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/webassembly), features a [chapter on WebAssembly](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/webassembly) in which author and analyst [Nimesh Vadgama](https://ops-ml-architect.blogspot.com/) covers Wasm in 2025. The report finds that 0.35% of desktop sites and 0.28% of mobile sites are using WebAssembly. A curious stat is that of the largest Wasm file, which weighs 228 MB, but the report also covers more down to earth statistics like the used features, the source languages people compiled from, and others. The [raw data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16z2MNwq8FFbuNYcJJZceML6rB5VAmBXNNHZy5FZuf8g/edit) and the used [queries](https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/tree/main/sql/2025/webassembly/) (the HTTP Archive is queryable on BigQuery) are available if you want to dive deeper. +The yearly [Web Almanac](https://almanac.httparchive.org/) from the [HTTP Archive](https://httparchive.org/) community, again after [2022](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/webassembly) and [2021](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/webassembly), features a [chapter on WebAssembly](https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/webassembly) in which author and analyst [Nimesh Vadgama](https://ops-ml-architect.blogspot.com/) covers Wasm in 2025. The report finds that 0.35% of desktop sites and 0.28% of mobile sites are using WebAssembly. A curious stat is that of the largest Wasm file, which weighs 228 MB, but the report also presents more down to earth statistics like features used, the source languages people compiled from, and others. The [raw data](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16z2MNwq8FFbuNYcJJZceML6rB5VAmBXNNHZy5FZuf8g/edit) and the used [queries](https://github.com/HTTPArchive/almanac.httparchive.org/tree/main/sql/2025/webassembly/) (the HTTP Archive is queryable on BigQuery) are available if you want to dive deeper. ![Cartoon Web Almanac characters performing scientific experiments on various code symbols resulting in ones and zeros coming out of the other end.](https://almanac.httparchive.org/static/images/2021/webassembly/hero_lg.avif)