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 ...

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...

While we've seen close attention paid to JavaScript performance in web browsers, including Microsoft Edge which made a clean break from 20 years of legacy Internet Explorer code, attention is now ...

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 last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

Fastly joins forces with Mozilla, Intel, and Red Hat in open-source community leveraging WebAssembly to create new cross-platform, cross-device computing runtime. Modern software applications and ...

The Stellar Development Foundation has joined the Bytecode Alliance, an industry group promoting the development of WebAssembly (Wasm), according to an Aug. 21 announcement from the foundation's ...

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 ...