WebAssembly has traveled a rocky road to adoption in its seven years of existence, especially given its promise of “build once, run anywhere.” A new survey from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation unpacks some of the reasons why the relationship between Wasm and developers remains complicated.
Experience with WebAssembly, a low-level assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs in near-native performance, actually declined since the CNCF’s previous annual survey. Excluding the 18% of respondents who couldn’t answer the question, 57% of respondents said they had no experience with the technology in 2023, compared with 50% who said the same in 2022.
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