{"id":14305,"date":"2017-09-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2019-02-18T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:24:44","slug":"so-what-is-webassembly-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/so-what-is-webassembly-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"So What Is WebAssembly All About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post on the new WebAssembly technology comes to us from Premier Developer consultant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/waelkdouh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wael Kdouh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Every now and then people get excited about a new feature that is being developed as a web standard. One such technology that has been garnering excitement lately is called WebAssembly. It&#8217;s a new way of running code on the web. Think about it as a new sort of application runtime that is available in the browser. It&#8217;s a subset of normal JavaScript that can be optimized to run extremely quickly (smaller download, much faster parsing in browsers). The browser can also verify that it&#8217;s safe extremely quickly. The new binary format for delivering that kind of code to the browser is called WebAssembly. It&#8217;s a low level binary code format that is not meant to be read\/written by humans. The idea is that you can compile to this format from some other languages.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading on Wael\u2019s blog <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@waelkdouh\/so-what-is-webassembly-all-about-fa0095542e7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post on the new WebAssembly technology comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh. Every now and then people get excited about a new feature that is being developed as a web standard. One such technology that has been garnering excitement lately is called WebAssembly. It&#8217;s a new way of running code on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,386],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permierdev","tag-wael-kdouh","tag-webassembly"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This post on the new WebAssembly technology comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh. Every now and then people get excited about a new feature that is being developed as a web standard. One such technology that has been garnering excitement lately is called WebAssembly. It&#8217;s a new way of running code on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}