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WebAssembly: A New Compilation Target for the Web

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Summary Luke Wagner discusses the design of WebAssembly, how web developers can target WebAssembly, and future developments including language support and better integration with JavaScript and HTML.

Bio Luke Wagner has worked at Mozilla for 6 years on JavaScript engine performance optimizations, asm.js, WebAssembly, and the Mozilla games program. Luke was one of the inventors of asm.js and implemented the initial asm.js optimizations in Firefox’s JavaScript engine. Luke now participates in the WebAssembly W3C Community Group and works on Firefox’s WebAssembly implementation.

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