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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 12; pp. 106 - 107
Main Author: Møller, Anders
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2018
Subjects:
Programming languages
Assembly languages (Electronic computers)
JavaScript programming language
Scripting languages (Computer science)
Computer software
Computer operating systems
Semantic computing
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.