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Author: ericgregory

_posts/2026-01-22-ten-years-of-webassembly-a-retrospective.md

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 In April of 2015, Luke Wagner made the first commits to a new repository called `WebAssembly`, adding a [high-level design document](https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/commit/12ee148fb5cfa33331dbffadae06752b1759a7bf) for a "binary format to serve as a web compilation target."
 
-Four years later, in December 2019, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [officially embraced WebAssembly (Wasm) as the "fourth language of the web"](https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2019/wasm/). Today, Wasm is used in web applications like [Google Earth](https://web.dev/case-studies/earth-webassembly), streaming video services like [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types) and [Disney Plus](https://medium.com/disney-streaming/introducing-the-disney-application-development-kit-adk-ad85ca139073), and game engines like [Unity](https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/webassembly-2023.html). 
+Four years later, in December 2019, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [officially embraced WebAssembly (Wasm) as the "fourth language of the web"](https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2019/wasm/). Today, Wasm is used in web applications like [Google Earth](https://web.dev/case-studies/earth-webassembly), streaming video services like [Amazon Prime Video](https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types) and [Disney Plus](https://medium.com/disney-streaming/introducing-the-disney-application-development-kit-adk-ad85ca139073), and game engines like [Unity](https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/webassembly-2023.html). Wasm runs on countless embedded devices, and cloud computing providers use Wasm to provide Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) and serverless functionality.
 
 The road to standardization (and understated ubiquity) would require the teams behind the major browsers to unite behind an approach that Wagner looks back on as "super hacky—*hilariously* hacky."