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WebAssembly at the Edge

Vercel News·Edward Thomson·4 days ago
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Infrastructure-native Wasm for faster performance of computationally heavy workloads We've been working to make it easier for every developer to build at the Edge, without complicated setup or changes to their workflow. Now, with support for WebAssembly in Vercel Edge Functions, we've made it possible to compile and run Vercel Edge Functions with languages like Rust, Go, C, and more. WebAssembly (Wasm) is a low-level language similar to Assembly. It’s commonly supported by JavaScript virtual machines like V8 , the engine behind our open-source Edge Runtime , and acts as a compilation target for many programming languages. By supporting Wasm at the Edge, any language that can compile to Wasm can now take advantage of Vercel’s Edge Functions . Link to heading Run more languages on the Edge WebAssembly lets you take an existing library written in a different language — for example, libpng, which generates PNG images and is written in C, or maybe even PHP — and use that directly in Edge Functions.…

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