Why Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC | web.dev
Google Sheets is one of the first products at Google to use WasmGC on Chrome. The move was announced in 2022, and the Sheets and Chrome teams partnered on standardization, engineering, and tooling to provide real-time feedback on optimizations. This partnership set a precedent for how engineering teams at Google can effectively work with Chrome to have more Google apps running on WasmGC.
The challenge: JavaScript
The Google Sheets calculation engine was originally written in Java and launched in...
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