The browser isn't a document viewer anymore If you're still architecting web apps like they're fancy HTML documents with some JavaScript sprinkled on top, you might be building for a platform that's already evolved past you. The browser has quietly become a full-blown application runtime. WebAssembly is now mature enough to run Figma's entire rendering engine, Photoshop, and even x86 emulators. AI-powered browsers are intercepting your carefully crafted UIs and summarising them into chat responses. The "page" as we knew it is being abstracted away. So what does this mean for how we actually build things? WebAssembly isn't experimental anymore Wasm crossed the chasm from "interesting tech demo" to "production-ready platform" a while ago. If you haven't touched it yet, here's what you need to know: It's polyglot by design. You can compile Rust, C++, Go, even Python to Wasm and run it in the browser at near-native speed.…