Technical perspective: WebAssembly: a quiet revolution of the web.

This article discusses the low-level computer programming language for software known as WebAssembly. The author comments on the use of WebAssembly to enable JavaScript engines on web browsers and describes the program's semantic design, which can function regardless of computer hardware or operatin...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 12; pp. 106 - 107
Autor principal:	Møller, Anders
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2018
Materias:	Programming languages Assembly languages (Electronic computers) JavaScript programming language Scripting languages (Computer science) Computer software Computer operating systems Semantic computing
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Sumario:	This article discusses the low-level computer programming language for software known as WebAssembly. The author comments on the use of WebAssembly to enable JavaScript engines on web browsers and describes the program's semantic design, which can function regardless of computer hardware or operating system.