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WebAssembly: An Attempt To Give the Web Its Own Bytecode

New submitter Josiah Daniels writes with this kernel from a much more detailed article at Ars Technica about what already looks like a very important initiative: WebAssembly is a new project being worked on by people from Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, and Apple, to produce a bytecode for the Web. WebAssembly, or wasm for short, is intended to be a portable bytecode that will be efficient for browsers to download and load, providing a more efficient target for compilers than plain JavaScript or even asm.js

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  1. Re:Too slow by jbeaupre · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you'd submitted it in some sort of compressed, machine readable format, it would have been faster.

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  2. Re:WTF with the new comment links? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They can't even do Unicode or https correctly. You are expecting too much from the script kiddies that run this site.