Mozilla, Intel, and More Form the Bytecode Alliance To Take WebAssembly Beyond Browsers

'Mozilla has been heavily invested in WebAssembly with Firefox, and
today, the organization teamed up with a few others to form the new
Bytecode Alliance, which aims to create "new software foundations,
building on standards such as WebAssembly and WebAssembly System
Interface (WASI)." Mozilla has teamed up with Intel, Red Hat, and
Fastly to found the alliance, but more members are likely to join over
time. The goal of the Bytecode Alliance is to create a new runtime
environment and language toolchains which are secure, efficient, and
modular, while also being available on as many platforms and devices
as possible. The technologies being developed by the Bytecode Alliance
are based on WebAssembly and WASI, which have been seen as a potential
replacement for JavaScript due to more efficient code compiling, and
the expanded capabilities of being able to port C and C++ code to the
web. To kick things off, the founding members have already contributed
a number of open-source technologies to the Bytecode Alliance,
including Wasmtime, a lightweight WebAssembly runtime; Lucet, an
ahead-of-time compiler; WebAssembly Micro Runtime; and Cranelift.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/11/13/1750234

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
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