WebAssembly Will Finally Let You Run High-Performance Applications in Your Browser
Found on IEEE on Sunday, 03 December 2017
Imagine that all your programs and data were stored in the cloud and that even computationally intensive applications like multimedia editing ran just as well in your browser as they would if they had been installed locally.
Looking back to the original dream of allowing the Web to run all manner of programs just as well as if they had been installed locally, my colleagues and I can see there is still a lot of work left to do. But with WebAssembly, we’re happy to be one giant step closer to that goal.
Javascript is already bad enough because naturally, it is abused to shovel all sorts of malware and advertisments onto the user's browser. Many websites load noteably faster with Javascript disabled (and are even better to navigate). Now imagine unsigned, random binaries running inside your browser. At least for now there are solutions like javascript.options.wasm and javascript.enabled.