WebAssembly now available as release candidate

WebAssembly, the much-anticipated portable code format positioned to boost web performance, proceeded to a release candidate stage Monday. The technology is expected to be shipped on-by-default in browsers after a specification release next year.The WebAssembly Browser Preview is the product of a collaboration between Google's V8 JavaScript Engine group, Mozilla's Firefox group, and Microsoft's Edge browser builders. It serves as a release candidate for WebAssembly's "minimum viable product" des