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With the rise of WebAssembly (wasm) it’s become easier than ever to run native code in a browser. As mostly just another platform to target, it would be remiss if …read more Continue reading Fortran and WebAssembly: Bringing Zippy Linear Algebra to NodeJS & Browsers
Audacity is an extremely popular open source audio editor, with hundreds of millions of downloads on the books. But due to some controversy over changes the Muse Group wanted to …read more Continue reading Audacity Runs Surprisingly Well in Your Browser
Finding a device or app that isn’t a web browser doesn’t seem easy. These days, it is either connected to the web (looking at you ESP32) or is just a …read more Continue reading Bringing Zelda Classic To The Browser
At first, Web browsers displayed HTML pages. But then people wanted those pages to do something. So we got — among other things — JavaScript. Then people wanted to do …read more Continue reading You are Doomed to Learn WebAssembly
Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 84 browser, fixing several flaws and delivering performance gains and Apple processor support. Continue reading Firefox Patches Critical Mystery Bug, Also Impacting Google Chrome
With the release of Manticore 0.3.3, we’re proud to announce support for symbolically executing WebAssembly (WASM) binaries. WASM is a newly standardized programming language that allows web developers to run code with near-native performance dir… Continue reading Symbolically Executing WebAssembly in Manticore
I’ve recently found out about this new technology, which recently became a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation and also that now almost all main browsers support it and it is enabled by default, see e.g. this.
I was not able to fin… Continue reading Can WebAssembly execution be disabled in browsers?
If you keep up with the field of web development, you may have heard of WebAssembly. A relatively new kid on the block, it was announced in 2015, and managed to garner standardised support from all major browsers by 2017 – an impressive feat. However, it’s only more recently that …read more
Continue reading WebAssembly: What Is It And Why Should You Care?
Forth. You either love it or you hate it. If you have struggled to work on tiny microcontrollers, you probably are in the first camp. After all, bringing up a minimal Forth system is pretty simple and requires very little resources on the CPU. Once you have such an environment it is then easy to extend Forth in Forth. [Remko] decided he wanted to build a Forth compiler that uses WebAssembly and runs in your browser. Why? We’ve learned not to think about that question too much.
The world has changed a lot since the first introduction of the WorldWideWeb …read more