Saturday, October 27, 2018

WASM!

Web Assembly bytecode is here, an interpretable assembly language for browsers.

The idea is that we can compile our c code into WASM, then load it onto a web page as script for execution.  It is supposed tor 20 times faster than javascript.  Solves a big problem and browser developers are on board.
WebAssembly is a new type of code that can be run in modern web browsers — it is a low-level assembly-like language with a compact binary format that runs with near-native performance and provides languages such as C/C++ with a compilation target so that they can run on the web

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