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 ...

When the World Wide Web Consortium designed WebAssembly, the primary goal was to address the shortcomings of running client-side JavaScript in a web browser. However, as developers begin to adopt and ...

WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and virtual machine that brings near-native performance to web browser applications, and allows developers to build high-speed web apps in the language of ...

WASM initially promised performance gains and greater portability for web applications, but now is making an impact across a growing number of environments. In just four short years, WebAssembly has ...

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 ...

WebAssembly (Wasm for short) is an open standard that enables browser-based applications to run with near-native performance. It has also expanded to support non-browser environments, which is what is ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Ratified in December 2019 by the W3C standards committee, WebAssembly has promised to change the ...

Around half of the websites that use WebAssembly, a new web technology, use it for malicious purposes, according to academic research published last year. WebAssembly is a low-level bytecode language ...

In BBC R&D, we are investigating how we evolve our current multimedia applications to move beyond video by using Object Based Media (OBM). OBM allows us to develop future audience experiences which ...