The design of JavaScript itself has features that are suboptimal from a performance perspective; the way a single JavaScript variable may at different times represent a number, a string, or a ...

The Bytecode Alliance aims to promote safe use—and reuse—of untrusted code at speed. ... Javascript is frequently misunderstood as a scripting language that is interpreted at runtime.

Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance ...