WebAssembly, or Wasm, gives developers a way to create programs that run at near-native speed in the browser or anywhere else you can deploy the WebAssembly runtime. But you generally don’t write ...

At first, Emscripten sounds like the punch line to a tech joke: a compiler that converts C/C++ code into Asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can then run via a Web browser or in the Node.js framework.

One of the hardest things I found when first learning C++, outside of learning about pointers and memory management, was how to successfully compile code using third-party libraries. As a game ...