WebAssembly Articles
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The Next Generation of Web Gaming
Now available in Firefox and Chrome, and also soon in Edge and WebKit, WebAssembly enables near-native performance of code in the browser, which is great for game development, and has also shown benefits for WebVR applications. Here's a look at how far we've come and what's ahead for HTML5 game development.
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WebAssembly for Native Games on the Web
There's never been a better time to port a native game to the web. Here are some tips from the trenches for getting started with WebAssembly and Emscripten.
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Creating a WebAssembly module instance with JavaScript
This is the 1st article in a 3-part series of articles with code cartoons that illustrate how to get started running WebAssembly modules in the browser today, how to work with memory in WebAssembly, and how to use table imports.
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Memory in WebAssembly (and why it’s safer than you think)
This is the 2nd article in a 3-part series of articles with code cartoons about running WebAssembly modules and memory safety.
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WebAssembly table imports… what are they?
This is the 3rd article in a 3-part series of articles with code cartoons that illustrate how to get started running WebAssembly modules and how to use table imports.
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Why WebAssembly is Faster Than asm.js
Performance is tricky to measure, and has many aspects. Also, in a new technology there are always going to be not-yet-optimized cases. So not every single benchmark will be fast on WebAssembly today. This post describes why WebAssembly should be fast; where it isn’t yet, those are bugs we need to fix.
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Firefox 52: Introducing WebAssembly, CSS Grid and the Grid Inspector
We cover some of the most innovative features to land in Firefox 52, including WebAssembly, CSS Grid, the CSS Grid Inspector Tool, an improved Responsive Design Mode, and Async and Await support for JavaScript.
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Previewing the WebAssembly Explorer
Unlike JavaScript, WebAssembly is a binary format, which means developers need new tools to help understand and experiment with WebAssembly. Discover the basic functions of the WebAssembly Explorer, which lets developers type in simple C or C++ programs and compile them to WebAssembly.
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Web Games Platform: Newest Developments
In July of 2015 we announced our Games Technology Roadmap, and we've been working steadily on addressing those pain points as shared by developers. Here's an overview of the newest platform developments and the progress we've made.
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A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
WebAssembly is a way of taking code written in programming languages other than JavaScript and running that code in the browser. So when people say that WebAssembly is fast, what they are comparing it to is JavaScript. In this series, I want to explain to you why WebAssembly is fast.
