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What is WebAssembly used for?

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  If you are into web development you might have heard of the buzzword - WebAssembly! Even though launched in 2015, WebAssembly managed to gather standardised support from all major browsers only by 2017. But recently the developer community has started to adopt and support it. So, what makes WebAssembly so compelling that it causes such quick adoption to browsers? Here’s a conceptual overview of what WebAssembly is used for from Cedar Software Technologies, the best digital marketing company in Kochi . So, what is WebAssembly? Since the advent of Javascript in the 90s, it’s succeeded at creating an interactive modern web. But, new-gen applications like 3D graphics, video/music editing and VR/AR could only perform natively as they are far more demanding for Javascript to execute. Javascript doesn’t inherently have the performance capabilities to support these applications. The search was on for a way to run low-level, optimised code in the browser with near-native performance. WebAssem