Web Assembly: The Future of JS and a Multi-Language Web
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Claims that WebAssembly is a compilation target for languages like Rust C and GoLang that augments JS not replaces it, shows a browser demo compiling ImageMagick to Wasm to do rotations filters and contrast changes ImageMagick via WebAssembly, reports image operations running up to ten times faster than JS and certain transforms that JS cannot perform efficiently, and notes WebAssembly modules are portable and works in Node 8+ removing per-architecture native rebuilds.
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