When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?
July 29, 2025
Is WebAssembly (Wasm) really ready for production usage in web applications, even though that usage requires integration with a web page and the APIs used to manipulate it, such as the DOM?
Simultaneously, the answer to this question is that “Wasm might never get direct DOM access,” and “Yes, Wasm is ready for all kinds of web-integrated uses, having supported calling out to the DOM (with a little indirection) since day zero.” Let me explain.
Source: When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? – ACM Queue
WebAssembly is a decade old now, but there’s no direct access to DOM APIs for WASM code. So is it really ready for production use in web apps? Daniel Ehrenberg explains why it is, and how in this detailed article.
