Hi ! I want to share this interesting article in IEEE Spectrum by Luke Wagner : WebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Applications in Your Browser

WebAssembly is a kind of VM to enable portable, compact and fast programs for the WebApplication, but it is also used for the execution part of EOS.
The article motivates the why of the WebAssembly.
Also, it can enable to port "native desktop" games and applications to be distributed on the web, which is nice because JavaScript is still having some issues regarding memory usage and performances with respect to native apps. It does not mean JavaScript is dead, because it will be used at a higher level for WebApps.

A few major backends are implemented :

• Unreal Engine: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-4-18-released
• Unity has a preliminary support too
• Qt : https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/178543/

Follows the links down below:

• https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/webassembly-will-finally-let-you-run-highperformance-applications-in-your-browser
• Another interesting article: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/13/webassembly-in-browsers/
• http://webassembly.org/
• https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen
• https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt

Previous post about WebAssembly with a video presentation from Google:

• https://steemit.com/eos/@boucaron/eos-first-look-at-the-source-code-webassembly