When the World Wide Web Consortium designed WebAssembly, the primary goal was to address the shortcomings of running client-side JavaScript in a web browser. However, as developers begin to adopt and ...

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 of ...

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-side web ...

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...