By Darryl K. Taft
“We’re still just scratching the surface of where WASM will go and we’ll see more attention applied to it, with pilot examples appearing toward the end of the year,” said Jason English, principal analyst and CMO at Intellyx. “WebAssembly technology holds great potential promise for modernization of existing application code into more responsive, high-performance and portable apps that can run alongside JavaScript in any browser. I can see the potential of very complex forms of business logic someday being executed using browser-supported resources, but right now WASM is barely starting to be used for graphics and processor-intensive uses like VR and gaming.”