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WebAssembly Innovations
Simon Willison's Weblog
Recent advancements in WebAssembly include the successful compilation of Firefox, allowing it to operate within Chrome. This project, costing around $25,000, demonstrates the growing potential of WebAssembly for enhancing browser functionalities and supporting encryption. Additionally, a new low-level Unicode library, Mojibake, showcases further applications of WebAssembly in software development.