With wasm-bindgen, JavaScript and WebAssembly could communicate with strings, JavaScript objects, and classes as opposed to just integers and floats. The high-level functions of wasm-bindgen include: ...

WebAssembly can serve as a companion to JavaScript in web development, taking on performance-intensive tasks. But thus far, combining the two has been hindered by slow function calls between the ...

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium’s WebAssembly Working Group published three First Public Working Drafts — WebAssembly Core Specification, WebAssembly JavaScript Interface, and WebAssembly ...

Brenden Eich, the creator of JavaScript and the short-lived Mozilla CEO, noted on his blog that developers will be able to use the same Emscripten tool for building WebAssembly apps that they ...

As JavaScript inventor (and short-term Mozilla CEO) Brendan Eich points out today, once the main browsers support the new format natively, JavaScript and WebAssembly will be able to diverge again.

WebAssembly has been in the planning stages for years, as an alternative to JavaScript for low-level applications, and it is now enabled by default in Chrome Canary 58.

WebAssembly has been slow to gain traction on the client side, but that’s about to change in 2023. Organizations have begun to realize that they can homogenize front-end and back-end development ...

Instead of a heavy dependence on JavaScript, notorious for its complex ecosystem, the new .NET Web framework lets developers use C#, Razor and HTML to create Web apps, with the help of WebAssembly, a ...

As JavaScript became faster, the browser also became more capable. WebGL, for example, exposed hardware accelerated 3D graphics to the JavaScript developer.