Hi ! Just a few interesting news on WebAssembly.
- Rust has now a WebAssembly Backend:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3239129/web-development/rust-language-gets-direct-webassembly-compilation.html - Since the support as matured in the main webbrowsers, we start to have interesting benchmarks:
https://sniklaus.com/blog/raytracer
https://github.com/sniklaus/experiment-raytracer - A very short example:
https://blog.octo.com/en/webassembly-an-executable-format-for-the-web/ - There is a bit of activity around it on github:
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=webassembly&type=Repositories - Update: a nice presentation of the history of JavaScript by its creator: https://brendaneich.com/2017/12/
It will be interesting to see support for multithread, simd (not so easy) and a bridge to Vulkan I hope.