Back in 2015, a consortium including Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and the WebKit project announced WebAssembly. This week, Mozilla, Intel, Red hat, and Fastly announced a new consortium called the ...

Charles Nutter‘s “JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)” was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite Ballroom A/B ...

A new Java coprocessor architecture called JVXtreme takes a different approach to Java application acceleration. It works in cooperation and in parallel with the main processor, generating better ...

One of the first decisions made when building Soroban, the Stellar network‘s smart contract platform, was “choosing a platform for it to run on.” The developers say they decided “to build on ...

In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...

Wasmer says the goal of WASIX is to allow any kind of program to run on top of WebAssembly, and this requires system call extensions that fill gaps in WASI. Bytecode Alliance says WASIX is ...