WebAssembly at the Edge
Aug 26, 2022

Summary
Introduced support for WebAssembly (Wasm) in Vercel Edge Functions, allowing developers to compile and run code written in languages like Rust, Go, and C directly on the edge. This enables the use of existing libraries and computationally heavy workloads that might be slower or require workarounds in JavaScript. The post highlights performance benefits (2-3x faster for computationally heavy workloads) and provides an example of a maze-solving application demonstrating these improvements.