One of the latest tools in the strive troughwards a fast and secure Web is called WebAssembly. It is a low-level, assembly-like language that can run in the browser alongside JavaScript. WebAssembly is designed to load fast and aims to execute at near-native speed. Being a compilation target for system languages like C, C++, and Rust, WebAssembly is not very accessible from a Web developer perspective. This project explores ways to generate WebAssembly directly from JavaScript code, in order to lower the learning curve, and allow for a more widespread adoption of WebAssembly. This has resulted in a utility tool called Esmbly, which can turn simple JavaScript programs into WebAssembly binaries by collecting and utilizing type information from various flavours of statically typed JavaScript.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-100437 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Lauri Boström, Olle |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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