{"id":10,"date":"2017-04-27T21:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/?p=10"},"modified":"2017-05-04T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:22:29","slug":"april-27-2017-webassembly-the-whole-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/2017\/04\/27\/april-27-2017-webassembly-the-whole-story\/","title":{"rendered":"April 27, 2017: WebAssembly: The Whole Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2017\/04\/firefox-53-quantum-compositor-compact-themes-css-masks-and-more\">WebAssembly: The Whole Story<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>WebAssembly (.wasm) is a new low-level, assembly-like language that can run in modern web browsers at near-native speeds. It is designed to work alongside JavaScript, and it provides a compilation target for languages like C\/C++ so they can run on the web.<\/p>\n<p>We put together a page to talk about what it is and how it&#8217;s used.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/research.mozilla.org\/webassembly\/\"><br \/>\nRead more about WebAssembly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/mozilla.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe_Mm3wXWjr_7x3jwfQR6VAXWm0Mp5FLe6MIKXGW3QBq1FRSA\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; color: #4d4e53; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\"> Other News<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Why is Rust the Most Loved Language by Developers?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mozilla-tech\/why-rust-is-the-most-loved-language-by-developers-666add782563\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nRead about what&#8217;s loved by companies like Dropbox and Coursera &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Fathom: a framework for understanding web pages<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2017\/04\/fathom-a-framework-for-understanding-web-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nFathom is a mini-language for writing semantic extractors. Learn more about it &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>3 CSS Grid Features that Make My Heart Flutter<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/una.im\/css-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nRead more about Una&#8217;s love of CSS Grid &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\ud83d\udca1 DevTools: Did you know?<\/h3>\n<p>You can debug the Web Audio API using DevTools<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Tools\/Web_Audio_Editor\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nLearn How to debug the Web Audio API &gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; color: #4d4e53; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\">On MDN<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/JavaScript\/Reference\/Statements\/async_function\" target=\"_blank\">Async\/Await in Firefox 52<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Web\/JavaScript\/Reference\/Global_Objects\" target=\"_blank\">Global standard JavaScript objects by category<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/docs\/Learn\/JavaScript\/First_steps\" target=\"_blank\">Getting started with JavaScript: First steps<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebAssembly: The Whole Story WebAssembly (.wasm) is a new low-level, assembly-like language that can run in modern web browsers at near-native speeds. It is designed to work alongside JavaScript, and it provides a compilation target for languages like C\/C++ so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/2017\/04\/27\/april-27-2017-webassembly-the-whole-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303315,19497,282895],"tags":[282895],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/newsletter-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}