As my career has progressed, I, like many readers out there, have seen the introduction of some game-changing platforms here and there. The field of web development only remains so prominent because of these various shifts in how we do things. Among the recent advancements, WebAssembly (Wasm) stands out as a game-changer, promising near-native performance for web applications.That alonedoesn’t soundlikemuchuntilyou considerthe factthat it’s a VM system running in either thebrowseror an Edge compute instance near you.So, combining it with PHP, a stalwart in server-side scripting, can unlock unprecedented efficiencies and capabilities. by Matt Lantz