Abstract: The web is now capable of running computationally intensive code at near-native speed, enabling new types of content such as physics simulations to be easily shared online. In this article, ...

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 ...

Recap: Early last month, someone used the PDF format's JavaScript support to run Tetris inside what should normally be a static text document. Predictably, within days, a high school student upgraded ...

Here at Ars, we’re suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from CAPTCHA robot checks and Windows’ notepad.exe to AI hallucinations and fluorescing gut bacteria. Despite ...

The big picture: Doom, the original first-person shooter for DOS by id Software, was released in 1993. Despite being over 30 years old, the game continues to inspire resourceful (and somewhat crazy) ...

Wasmer 5.0, the latest stable version of the WebAssembly-based runtime, has been released with support for the iOS mobile operating system. The release also features a leaner codebase and enhanced ...

Anthropic is working on a new screen capture feature for Claude AI. This feature includes a button with a photo icon that allows users to seamlessly take screenshots from other screens or Chrome tabs.

Here in 2024, writing new games for the venerable Atari 2600 game console is easier than ever, with plenty of emulators and toolchains to convert your code into ready-to-load ROMs. Yet what is easier ...

After I extract the file, I want to delete the old file so that it doesn't consume memory, but apparently emscripten_async_wget just held on to the file and doens't allow it to unlink/remove. I also ...

Is it possible to have an option to compile openal-soft on emscripten with pthreads disabled? Or just disable it if EMSCRIPTEN is defined in CMakeLists.txt? By default pthreads is disabled on that ...