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 ...

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 is designed to address the shortcomings of JavaScript, which is the closest thing to a standard language for building web- and browser-based apps.

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

Colin Eberhardt looks at what's wrong with the way people are using JavaScript today and why they need WebAssembly. He gives a tour of the WebAssembly instruction set, memory and security model ...

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.

The 9.0 release of the V8 JavaScript engine, powering Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, improves the performance of making WebAssembly calls from JavaScript, adds regular expression match ...

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 ...

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.