Mozilla engineers have accelerated the Firefox AI Runtime by replacing its WebAssembly-based backend with a native C++ implementation.

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 has grown far beyond its original intent of being used to develop web applications.

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 ...

WebAssembly promises a whole new kind of web—snappier performance for users, and more flexibility for developers. Instead of being locked into using JavaScript as the sole language for client ...

Around half of the websites that use WebAssembly, a new web technology, use it for malicious purposes, according to academic research published last year. WebAssembly is a low-level bytecode ...

The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly The next step in the evolution of JavaScript and asm.js is to do away with both of them.

The WebAssembly team decided to go with a binary format because that code can be compressed even more than the standard JavaScript text files and because it’s much faster for the engine to ...