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.

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 ...

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium’s WebAssembly Working Group published three First Public Working Drafts — WebAssembly Core Specification, WebAssembly JavaScript Interface, and WebAssembly ...

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and some of the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.

WebAssembly has been in the planning stages for years, as an alternative to JavaScript for low-level applications, and it is now enabled by default in Chrome Canary 58.

WebAssembly has been slow to gain traction on the client side, but that’s about to change in 2023. Organizations have begun to realize that they can homogenize front-end and back-end development ...

The Web is getting its bytecode: WebAssembly The next step in the evolution of JavaScript and asm.js is to do away with both of them.