WebAssembly Unites Browsers Around Portable Bytecode

For its ten-year anniversary, interviews with WebAssembly co-designers recount how engineers at Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collaborated beginning in 2013 to design a portable bytecode, with the first public commits in April 2015 and W3C endorsement in December 2019. The piece traces technical choices—like asm.js heritage and a shared "trusted call stack"—and shows Wasm’s broad adoption across Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop, streaming services, game engines, serverless, and embedded devices.