WebAssembly can serve as a companion to JavaScript in web development, taking on performance-intensive tasks. But thus far, combining the two has been hindered by slow function calls between the ...

WebAssembly looks to take JavaScript head-on with its inherent advantage in speed. David Byrant, Head of Platform Engineering at Mozilla is apparently sold out to WebAssembly. He has written a ...

State of JavaScript 2019 developer survey says TypeScript, React, Express, and GraphQL are hot, ... WebAssembly hasn’t grabbed JavaScript developers. by Paul Krill.

Javascript has been around since the 90s. To be honest, it’s done a pretty good job; whilst it certainly has its drawbacks, it’s succeeded at creating an interactive modern web, even escaping ...

WebAssembly code runs in a sandboxed environment, similar to JavaScript, but with faster execution and smaller file sizes. WebAssembly can also access web APIs, such as the DOM, through JavaScript ...

JavaScript developers are still getting their feet wet with WebAssembly, a survey of JavaScript developers has found. Survey data published in the State of JavaScript 2019 report issued this week ...

Near-native performance just isn't possible with browser-based JavaScript. WebAssembly is universally supported. WebAssembly is a W3C standard, but that doesn't mean much if the standard lacks ...

Note: This document is no longer being updated. Please see the normative documentation. In the MVP, the only way to access WebAssembly on the Web is through an explicit JS API which is defined below. ...

When you are instantiating Wasm modules, you are able to pass in an importObject. This importObject can be used to call host (Javascript) functions within Wasm! In rust, tools like wasm-bindgen, which ...