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I've yet to see a single example of WASM in the wild. How is it supposed to "replace" anything, if nobody is using it?


You've likely had WebAssembly running in your browser but didn't even realize it.

Firefox also lets add-ons run WebAssembly modules which is something that uBlock Origin has made use of for a long time:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...


1Password actually bundles it with everything they ship (browser, desktop, even their golang cli): https://github.com/1Password/onepassword-sdk-go/tree/v0.1.7/... and then use extism to cross over its boundary https://github.com/1Password/onepassword-sdk-go/blob/v0.1.7/...

They compiled their rust libraries to wasm and it allows reuse of those rust bits across everything

The other famous example I know of, but haven't used, is Figma https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-...




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