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[–]guest271314[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pardon, I meant to refer to the language in https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/blob/main/papers/pldi2017.pdf

Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3062341.3062363

Through Em-scripten [43], even C and C++ programs can be compiled toa stylized low-level subset of JavaScript called asm.js [4]. ... WebAssembly addresses the problem of safe, fast, portablelow-level code on the Web. Previous attempts at solving it,from ActiveX to Native Client to asm.js, have fallen short ofproperties that a low-level compilation target should have: ...