The launch of WebAssembly

Luke Wagner of Mozilla has announcedthe existence of the WebAssembly project. The purpose is to define alow-level language to run in web browsers; it will then serve as acompilation target for higher-level languages. Developers from most of themajor browser engines are working on the project. "For existingEmscripten/asm.js users, targeting WebAssembly will be as easy as flippinga flag. Thus, it is natural to view WebAssembly as the next evolutionarystep of asm.js (a step many have requested and anticipated)."