Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fermyon Inc., a startup with a function-as-a-service platform based on WebAssembly. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fermyon ...

When the World Wide Web Consortium designed WebAssembly, the primary goal was to address the shortcomings of running client-side JavaScript in a web browser. However, as developers begin to adopt and ...

Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon. He has authored several books. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado. When Amazon was still known more as a bookstore than a technology ...

For the first time, the Microsoft Edge Web browser provides out-of-the-box support for WebAssembly, the experimental technology that lets developers write Web code in non-JavaScript languages like C, ...

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WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and virtual machine that brings near-native performance to web browser applications, and allows developers to build high-speed web apps in the language of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Justin is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine. WebAssembly, or Wasm, has finally started becoming usable by ordinary ...

Start by checking if WebAssembly is disabled in your Edge browser. Edge uses an enhanced security mode to add an extra layer of protection while browsing the web. This helps in reducing the risk of ...

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WebAssembly, or Wasm, gives developers a way to create programs that run at near-native speed in the browser or anywhere else you can deploy the WebAssembly runtime. But you generally don’t write ...