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Rahul Sharma is passionately curious about teaching programming. He has been writing software for the last two years. He got started with Rust with his work on Servo, a browser engine by Mozilla Research as part of his GSoC project. At present, he works at AtherEnergy, where he is building resilient cloud infrastructure for smart scooters. His interests include systems programming, distributed systems, compilers and type theory. He is also an occasional contributor to the Rust language and does mentoring of interns on the Servo project by Mozilla.
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Design goals of WebAssembly

WebAssembly's design is the result of a joint collaboration between major browser vendors. Together, they aim to shape its design with the following goals in mind:

  • Be as safe and universal as JavaScript: The web platform is an unsafe environment and having untrusted code run is detrimental to the safety of users on the web.
  • Run as quickly as native code: Because the language is quite compact, WebAssembly can be loaded faster than JavaScript code and can be interpreted five times faster than JavaScript.
  • Provide consistent, predictable performance: Being statically typed, and with very minimal analysis happening at runtime, WebAssembly is able to provide consistent performance on the web, whereas JavaScript falls short because of its dynamic nature.
  • Allow code reuse between web and native: A lot of existing code bases in C/C++, Rust, and other languages...
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Rahul Sharma is passionately curious about teaching programming. He has been writing software for the last two years. He got started with Rust with his work on Servo, a browser engine by Mozilla Research as part of his GSoC project. At present, he works at AtherEnergy, where he is building resilient cloud infrastructure for smart scooters. His interests include systems programming, distributed systems, compilers and type theory. He is also an occasional contributor to the Rust language and does mentoring of interns on the Servo project by Mozilla.
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