C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure - Second Edition

Reason seven – security

To be clear, WebAssembly runs in the same context as JavaScript, so it is no more or less secure than writing a web application in JavaScript. However, when you consider what you're doing, it is actually quite secure. It is far more secure than sending people an executable and asking them to run it on their machine.

I've listed some reasons why you may wish to use WebAssembly. It clearly has some advantages over the traditional web model for certain applications. However, as always with technology, it's about trade-offs.

In the next section, we'll look at how you might actually write some WebAssembly.