The Wasm W3C Community Group and Working Group released Wasm version 3 on Thursday. In the announcement, Wasm contributor and programming language researcher and engineer Andreas Rosberg called it “a substantially larger update,” which includes features in the making for six or eight years.
Of particular interest to frontend developers will be a new offering: WebAssembly (Wasm) now has a more efficient way to handle JavaScript strings.
Previously, Wasm received JavaScript string values, but treated them as external references…








