Introduction
As web technologies have advanced, there’s been a push to move more and more applications to the web. This has presented developers with another challenge because web browsers support only one programming language: JavaScript. As browser makers looked for ways to improve JavaScript’s performance, they came up with a great new invention: WebAssembly.
WebAssembly was first introduced in 2015, and, alongside HTML, CSS, and JS, it became the fourth language for the Web that runs natively in browsers (W3C announced on 5 December 2019 ).
Introduction
As web technologies have advanced, there’s been a push to move more and more applications to the web. This has presented developers with another challenge because web browsers support only one programming language: JavaScript. As browser makers looked for ways to improve JavaScript’s performance, they came up with a great new invention: WebAssembly.
WebAssembly was first introduced in 2015, and, alongside HTML, CSS, and JS, it became the fourth language for the Web that runs natively in browsers (W3C announced on 5 December 2019 ). […]