I gave a lightning talk about improvements and changes to WebAssembly in Firefox 58 at SydJS in January. Largely my talk was about the new streaming and tiering compiler for WebAssembly in Firefox. The best resource that explains the new system can be found at hacks.mozilla.org.
If you are a developer who wants to use WASM for your next project, you don’t have to fully understand how the new compiler works – you can just reap the benefits and improvements. For new WebAssembly project I suggest you check out the rust wasm32 toolchain that makes it really easy to get started building WASM modules:
If you want to learn even more about WebAssembly, then check out this category on the hacks.mozilla.org blog: https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/webassembly/.
Huge thanks to the organizers of SydJS for letting me give my quick talk on a super short notice!
