Mozilla’s latest beta version of the Firefox browser, Firefox Nightly, makes calls between the WebAssembly binary format and JavaScript faster, so it is easier to combine the two languages ...

The WebAssembly team decided to go with a binary format because that code can be compressed even more than the standard JavaScript text files and because it’s much faster for the engine to ...

The wasm-bindgen effort is meant to improve interoperability between JavaScript and Rust and to make Rust a web language like JavaScript, via WebAssembly.

WebAssembly is designed to address the shortcomings of JavaScript, which is the closest thing to a standard language for building web- and browser-based apps.

Colin Eberhardt looks at what's wrong with the way people are using JavaScript today and why they need WebAssembly. He gives a tour of the WebAssembly instruction set, memory and security model ...

The 9.0 release of the V8 JavaScript engine, powering Chrome and Chromium-based browsers, improves the performance of making WebAssembly calls from JavaScript, adds regular expression match ...

WebAssembly's embedded binary format has the ability to speed up performance and make applications available across platforms.

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.

Around half of the websites that use WebAssembly, a new web technology, use it for malicious purposes, according to academic research published last year. WebAssembly is a low-level bytecode ...

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March ...