
WebAssembly Escaped the Browser. In 2026, It's Quietly Becoming the Runtime for Everything
WebAssembly launched as a way to run near-native code in browsers. In 2026, it's running at the edge, inside databases, as a plugin system in dozens of applications, and as the foundation for portable CLIs that run identically on any operating system. The story of how a browser technology became a universal compute substrate is worth understanding.










