Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance, ...

In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...

Back in 2015, a consortium including Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and the WebKit project announced WebAssembly. This week, Mozilla, Intel, Red hat, and Fastly announced a new consortium called the ...

Charles Nutter‘s “JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)” was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite Ballroom A/B ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...