While an analyst at Ovum is mostly applauding the technology, the founder of JavaScript presentation engine maker Famous is skeptical. With WebAssembly, technologists from Mozilla, Microsoft ...

Javascript has been around ... problem that it was never standardised, so performance improvements were inconsistent across different platforms. WebAssembly automatically supersedes asm.js ...

which allowed software to be written in languages like C but be run like a JavaScript web application at faster a speed. However, WebAssembly is promising performance improvements of up to 20 ...

Now, with Blazor lighting a new fire in the .NET Web development space, Microsoft has boosted the performance of WebAssembly -- and JavaScript -- in Edge's rendering engine. Actually, Blazor is just ...