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 ...

This tutorial shows how to use WebAssembly and React to build a lightweight video editing tool that converts videos into GIFs directly in the browser. By running FFmpeg.wasm, developers can handle CPU ...

WebAssembly gives you a way to run code across platforms, including in a web browser, at near-native speeds, and by way of a broad range of languages. Google's Go language compiles directly to ...

If you keep up with the field of web development, you may have heard of WebAssembly. A relatively new kid on the block, it was announced in 2015, and managed to garner standardised support from all ...

In the midst of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 data dump, Mozilla quietly released Firefox 52, which has officially become the first web browser to support the new WebAssembly standard. Work on WebAssembly ...

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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 ...

Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance, ...