Overcoming the adoption challenges with WebAssembly

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Claim: the main barrier to wide WebAssembly adoption is a developer tooling gap — teams are building platforms so engineers never touch raw wasm bytecode. Evidence: migration from browser to serverless and edge, multiple cloud-native WebAssembly projects and vendor toolchains emerging, and an active Cloud Native Slack channel plus a nascent working group. Result: portable WebAssembly as a deployment target is viable but tooling remains immature; early adopters must integrate current runtimes and CI plugins to make it work.

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