Faster machine learning in the browser: TensorFlow.js combines ML and JavaScript, and now the open source library works with a brand-new WebAssembly backend! It offers an alternative to the WebGL backend to provide benefits in certain use cases. Let’s take a closer look!
During the last decades, a growing trend has been to put more and more functionality into the client by using the latest and greatest JavaScript framework. But what if we could be using native code in the browser in order to run computations faster and potentially reuse code from the backend in the frontend? Enter WebAssembly.
CheerpJ can convert your Java applications into JavaScript, and now version 2.0 was released with support for WebAssembly. CheerpJ 2.0 consists of an AOT compiler, a Java runtime in WebAssembly and JavaScript, and an interoperability API. It is available as community and commercial editions.
Version 8.0 of Google’s open source JavaScript engine V8 has arrived. This poetic release of V8 v8 not only has a nice ring to it, but adds some performance improvements, bug fixes and the ECMAScript language features optional chaining and nullish coalescing.
WebAssembly (Wasm) is now the fourth language to receive an official recommendation for the web by the World Web Consortium (W3C). It joins HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Are we about to enter a new web era? Now that WebAssembly is officially a web standard, let us take a look at some of its use cases, end goals, and the W3C’s reasons for choosing it.
Oracle has been working on implementing a Wasm engine in GraalVM, and the result is GraalWasm. The project is still in its early stages and marked as experimental. Let’s see what Oracle has done so far, what the anticipated benefits are, and what’s planned for the future.
WebAssembly and Go, together in the browser with Vugu! This experimental library is for writing web UIs in pure Go, targeting WebAssembly. It takes inspiration from UI libraries such as Vue and React. While we wait for its v1.0 release, take a look at its current features and future plans.
Since we covered TinyGo last year, it has expanded its reach and seen several updates. This Go compiler for microcontrollers, modern web browsers, and command-line tools also can compile Go to WebAssembly to create browser-based apps. How small can TinyGo squeeze down WebAssembly and what drawbacks and limitations does it have?
The love for WebAssembly just keeps on growing! Fastly open sourced their internal native WebAssembly compiler and runtime, Lucet. Written in Rust, Lucet can execute tens of thousands of WebAssembly programs simultaneously, all with the benefits of a top-notch security architecture.
Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.1 was announced earlier this month. The latest release focuses on two major new features, namely an improved consensus interface and support for WebAssembly smart contracts. We talked to James Mitchell, Sawtooth maintainer and president of Bitwise IO about the most important changes in Sawtooth 1.1, its use cases and what’s next for this framework.
Are you ready to execute code faster than ever? Discover why WebAssembly is a very important part of the web platform of the future. In this tutorial by Flavio Copes, developers will learn how to use WebAssembly, how to compile their C programs, and how to call a WebAssembly function from JavaScript.
The latest edition of ThoughtWorks’ Technology Radar has highlighted what a lot of commentators already know: Istio and Knative are worth exploring but so are WebAssembly and Flutter. What’s even more interesting is that there are no languages, tools or platforms on the ‘adopt’ list so it’s safe to say that no one is missing out on anything.
Go 1.11 is almost here and finally, Go supports WebAssembly. Are you ready for it? In this article, Sebastian Holstein explains how developers can use Go as a language for WASM applications.
