WebAssembly

Browser engineers are coming together to bring fast web applications to the masses. It is a project called WebAssembly and aims to give developers an alternative to JavaScript which has significantly slowed down the internet. By joining forces, programmers can be confident that wasm has a mainstream future. They could write browser-based versions of a new class of software for things like performance-intensive gaming, video editing and virtual reality exploration. The usual problem with programs being written in one language or another is that browsers have to agree to support it. Also, if programs are running over cloud services, it will be able to work on any operating system and it will save room on the local drive. Not to mention, the program will be much faster. Interestingly enough, even though the developers are coming together to make this language work, it will create more competition in the computing industry in the long run.