The design of JavaScript itself has features that are suboptimal from a performance perspective; the way a single JavaScript variable may at different times represent a number, a string, or a ...

The Bytecode Alliance aims to promote safe use—and reuse—of untrusted code at speed. ... Javascript is frequently misunderstood as a scripting language that is interpreted at runtime.

Collaborations among the Bytecode Alliance members involve several projects: Runtimes including Wasmtime, which is a stand-alone WebAssembly runtime that can be used in a CLI tool or embedded into ...

In software engineering, code transforms from human-readable high-level languages like Python or Java into machine-readable binary (machine code). An intermediate step, bytecode, bridges ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Bytecode Alliance, a community dedicated to creating new software foundations, building on standards such as WebAssembly and WebAssembly System Interface (WASI ...

Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance ...

Microsoft and several other industry heavyweights have joined to incorporate the Bytecode Alliance, on a mission to create new software foundations based on standards such as WebAssembly, a key ...

Inside every browser is the core of the ideal client-side application environment, incorporating everything that I’d estimate half of commercial applications need. There’s the best dynamic ...

The vast majority of the packages found on public repositories such as npm for JavaScript, PyPI for Python, and RubyGems for Ruby consist of open-source code files that are packaged into archives.

Apple this week upped the stakes with the new SquirrelFish bytecode JavaScript interpreter, which it claims offers significant performance improvements.