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Hello everyone this is my first post on steemit! I am really excited about it :). Let's get going !!
So what is this post about?
Recently a technology called WEBASSEMBLY has come that will surely change the way web works. Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and a few other people have been secretly working on this thing for quite a while and its going to be BIG!
What is WebAssembly?
- A improved language: WebAssembly code defines an AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) represented in a binary format. You can author and debug in a text format.
- Browser improvement: Browsers will understand binary format faster than javascript in some cases it is 20X faster than JS!
- No javascript! Implement your stuff easily ;expect great performance and import it like a JS module.
It’s much harder to get real work done when you’re writing directly in assembly language. So why do we need it?
WebAssembly gives us access to a set of low level building blocks that we can use to construct just about anything you can imagine.The key words are low-level.
WebAssembly fills in the gaps that cannot be filled with JavaScript.
Why do we need WebAssembly?
Its really Fast!
The kind of binary format being considered for WebAssembly can be natively decoded much faster than JavaScript can be parsed (experiments show more than 20× faster).Games On the Web!
Games target PS4, XBox and PC. Now they could also be targeted at the web with WebGL and ASM.js, web audio and other APIs.Apps On the Web!
Music production apps like Ableton Live and video production apps like Adobe Premier Pro can be ported to the web.Literally Everthing On the Web!
Everything you can imagine with a computer can be done on web as this works on assembly code which is fundamental and most low-level part of the computer.
Please look at the following talks for more info!
- Brendan Eich on JavaScript Taking Both the High and Low Roads
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- WebAssembly will change the way we think of "Web Apps"
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- Will WebAssembly overtake JavaScript in Web Development?
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