WebAssembly briefing
Last week I’d organized a small briefing at work about WebAssembly. The goal of the briefing was to give my colleagues an overview about what WebAssembly is and how it can be used to improve our products. I’ve used these notes for the discussion.
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++ and Rust with a compilation target so that they can run on the web. It is also designed to run alongside JavaScript, allowing both to work together. The list of the languages that compile to WebAssembly is getting bigger and bigger. But does it support
_.sample(popularLanguages)? Most probably: yes, it does. Someone already made a language designed for WebAssembly called Assembly script.