That is, Python lacks a consistent internal mechanism for generating a standalone binary from an application ... OSes it supports by way of a common format for apps on that platform: To deploy ...

From blazing-fast web apps to Python data science in the browser ... WebAssembly is a low-level, assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance in ...

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.