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WebAssembly: An Attempt To Give the Web Its Own Bytecode

Posted by timothy on from the where-is-your-bottleneck dept.

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. Makes Perfect Sense by cmorriss · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is ultimately where the browsers need to go. Many have tried in the past, but always from some side angle assuming that it had to be through a plugin or had to use Javascript as the underlying byte code, e.g. GWT. This could finally allow a wide array of languages to be used to build web applications, similar to the explosion of languages that now run on a JVM.

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  2. Back to the future .. by nickweller · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Java virtual machine (JVM)

  3. Re:The Web needs a lot of things by viperidaenz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you tried the latest framework, Vanilla JS? It's faster and more efficient than any other framework.