In the long run, WebAssembly should be able to diverge from JavaScript semantics to serve as a common object-level format for multiple source-level programming languages, said Eich.

WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and virtual machine that brings near-native performance to web browser applications, and allows developers to build high-speed web apps in the language ...

What is WebAssembly? Javascript has been around since the 90s. To be honest, it’s done a pretty good job; ... so performance improvements were inconsistent across different platforms.

However, WebAssembly is promising performance improvements of up to 20 times faster than asm.js. The new format has a .wasm file extension, and its code is compiled into a binary, where it is then ...

Last November, Microsoft for the first time provided out-of-the-box Edge browser support for WebAssembly, the new technology that lets developers write Web code in non-JavaScript languages like C, C++ ...

While the global tech ecosystem moves toward high-performance web applications powered by Wasm, much of Africa’s startup scene remains tethered to traditional JavaScript-based web development.