[dba-Tech] A web game changer?

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

Supposedly, Webassembly (http://bit.ly/21UHnuv) is game changer. It originated from the highly optimized asm.js which can run very complex applications across the web; like games with all the complex ray-tracing and 3D rendering. WA is designed to spawns services instead of using the standard monolith code which gives the browser the ability to perform tasks at the near speed of desktop applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly (https://github.com/WebAssembly)

Aside: There has been some development that WebAssembly may eventually be rewritten in the new language Rust, which has been designed to be faster, leaner and more stable than C or C++: (https://www.rust-lang.org/) To prove the new language's capability some developers went so far as to build a version of Linux called Redox (http://www.redox-os.org/). This distro version is not quite ready to prime-time but it does give proof-of-concept.

Jim