Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance ...

Unlike script files, the bytecode represents a low-level, fairly compact representation of a program. Bytecodes also tend to be much easier for computers to read and JIT compile.

Bytecode Alliance wants to extend that security to make it safe to use untrusted code on any platform, whether it is on a server in the cloud, on a desktop computer, or in an IoT device.

Charles Nutter 's "JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)" was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite ...