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WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things!

People are excited about running WebAssembly outside the browser.

That excitement isn’t just about WebAssembly running in its own standalone runtime. People are also excited about running WebAssembly from languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust.

Why would you want to do that? A few reasons:

Make “native” modules less complicated Runtimes like Node or Python’s CPython often allow you to write…

Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web

Today, we announce the start of a new standardization effort — WASI, the WebAssembly system interface.

Why: Developers are starting to push WebAssembly beyond the browser, because it provides a fast, scalable, secure way to run the same code across all machines.

But we don’t yet have a solid foundation to build upon. Code outside of a browser needs a way to talk to the system — a system…

Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?

This post was written in collaboration with the Rust Team (the “we” in this article). You can also read their announcement on the Rust blog.

Starting today, the Rust 2018 edition is in its first release. With this edition, we’ve focused on productivity… on making Rust developers as productive as they can be.

But beyond that, it can be hard to explain exactly what Rust 2018 is.

Some people think…

WebAssembly’s post-MVP future: A cartoon skill tree

People have a misconception about WebAssembly. They think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—which we called the minimum viable product (or MVP) of WebAssembly—is the final version of WebAssembly.

I can understand where that misconception comes from. The WebAssembly community group is really committed to backwards compatibility. This means that the WebAssembly that you…

Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast 🎉

At Mozilla, we want WebAssembly to be as fast as it can be.

This started with its design, which gives it great throughput. Then we improved load times with a streaming baseline compiler. With this, we compile code faster than it comes over the network.

So what’s next?

One of our big priorities is making it easy to combine JS and WebAssembly. But function calls between the two languages haven’t…

Babys First Rust+WebAssembly Module: Say Hello to JSConfEU!

A secret venture has been brewing for JSConf EU, and this weekend is the massive reveal

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The Arch is a a larger-than-life expertise that makes use of 30,000 coloured LEDs to create a canvas for gentle animations.

And you can take cost of this space. Utilizing modules, you may create a light-weight animation.

But regardless that that is JSConf, these animations arent simply…

A Cartoon Intro to DNS Over HTTPS

Threats to customers privateness and safety are rising. At Mozilla, we carefully observe these threats. We imagine we now have an obligation to do the whole lot we are ready to to guard Firefox customers and their data.

Were taking up the businesses and organizations that need to secretly acquire and promote consumer information. This is the reason we added tracking protection and created the…

ES Modules: a Cartoon Deep-dive

ES modules convey an official, standardized module system to JavaScript. It took some time to get right here, though??nearly 10 years of standardization work. But the wait is type of over. With the discharge of Firefox 60 in Could (currently in beta), all main browsers will help ES modules, and the Node modules working group is at present engaged on including ES module help to Node.js. And ES…