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 latest beta version of Firefox, Mozilla has dramatically sped up WebAssembly calls from Firefox. This should make some browser-based games, that use WebAssembly, run much faster. Mozilla has ...

Mozillas’s goal is to make Rust a web language like JavaScript, for use alongside WebAssembly and JavaScript in web apps Mozilla is working on a bridge between types in JavaScript and the Rust ...

The proposed WebAssembly Component Model would improve web integration and elevate Wasm from “second-class language” status, says Mozilla developer.

In case you haven’t heard, the Mozilla Firefox team recently released Firefox 52. The release includes the typical list of bug fixes and optimizations, but a big addition is the inclusion of ...

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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 ...

WebAssembly, despite its name, is far more useful than just as a stack-based virtual machine (VM) for web browsers. It's increasingly being used to address a wide variety of programming needs from ...