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WebAssembly at the Edge

Vercel News·Edward Thomson·6 months 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.…

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