People have a misconception—they think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—is the final version. In fact, we still have many use cases to unlock, from heavy-weight ...
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-future
* Emscripten
* make this JavaScript run really fast
* asm.js
* started adding the same optimizations
* faster than it is coming in over the network
* two compilers
* Cranelift
* rewritten in Rust
* on average 86x faster
* faster than non-inlined JavaScript to JavaScript calls.
* Scala.js
* Reason
* Elm
* tail calls
* POSIX
* package name maps
* explained it this way
* Cranelift
* WAVM
* brave souls are trying that, too