# 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective

DevFeed: [10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/10-years-of-wasm-a-retrospective-15139.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/ten-years-of-webassembly-a-retrospective>)

Author: Eric Gregory

Published: 2026-01-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Bytecode Alliance](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bytecode-alliance.md>)

Topics: [wasm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wasm.md>), [WebAssembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-assembly.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>)

Tags: [browsers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browsers.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [retrospective](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retrospective.md>), [wasm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wasm.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

A retrospective on WebAssembly's origins, standardization, and adoption over its first ten years. It covers the project's 2015 beginnings, the W3C's 2019 recognition of Wasm as the "fourth language of the web," and its use in web applications, streaming video, game engines, embedded devices, and cloud serverless functions.

## Source excerpt

In April of 2015, Luke Wagner made the first commits to a new repository called WebAssembly/design, adding a high-level design document for a "binary format to serve as a web compilation target."