WebAssembly Users a Mix of Backend and Full Stack Developers

Full Stack and Backend Developers' Diverging Use Cases

The State of WebAssembly 2022 survey data indicates that not all Web Assembly (WASM) users are alike, with a divide emerging around backend developers and everyone else.

Colin Eberhardt, the editor of WASM Weekly, surveyed 297 people in June 2022, of which almost half (49%) had at least three years of experience working with WASM. Overall, those with little experience were not that different from everyone else, which indicates that there is an opportunity to change opinions in the market.

One area where experience matters is existing use cases. Web development continues to be the most common way WASM is used, cited by 72% of respondents. Half as many people cited serverless, with containerization and plug-in environments rounding out the top four.


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