Mozilla’s latest beta version of the Firefox browser, Firefox Nightly, makes calls between the WebAssembly binary format and JavaScript faster, so it is easier to combine the two languages ...

The wasm-bindgen effort is meant to improve interoperability between JavaScript and Rust and to make Rust a web language like JavaScript, via WebAssembly.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

It took only two years for all browser vendors to get on the same page regarding the new WebAssembly standard, and as of October 2017, all major browsers support it.

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 ...

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