WebAssembly

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a new type of code that can be run in modern web browsers. It is designed to be a safe, portable and efficient way to execute code on the web. Wasm is a low-level assembly-like language with a small instruction set. It is meant to be portable across platforms and architectures. Wasm is designed to be compiled to a binary format that can be executed efficiently by a variety of web platforms. Wasm is not meant to replace JavaScript. Instead, it is designed to complement it. Wasm can be used to improve performance of web applications and to enable new types of applications that are not possible to run on the web today. Wasm is an open standard and is being developed by a W3C Community Group.