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. Work on WebAssembly began in April ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain ...

Deno and Node.js both execute JavaScript on C/C++ based runtimes to achieve high performance. Deno is a single binary app incompatible with NPM modules, and has no easy way to incorporate native ...

In 2024, WebAssembly has evolved both inside and outside the browser. C. Gerard Gallant has written a detailed article about the development of WebAssembly in 2024 and the plans for 2025. He is the ...

A decade in the making, WebAssembly (Wasm) has been attracting greater attention within the cloud-native software community, given the overall expansion of automated industrial systems and the ...

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 ...

It’s not hard to see why Microsoft is investing in WebAssembly. It’s a technology that scratches many different itches. It delivers apps to users, adds rich user interfaces to web applications, and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Ratified in December 2019 by the W3C standards committee, WebAssembly has promised to change the ...

Have you ever dreamt of developing games that run on practically anything, from a modern browser to a microcontroller? Enter WASM-4, a minimalist fantasy console where constraints spark creativity.