Microsoft’s secret weapon in browser wars: Mozilla’s supercharged Asm.js

Last updated on September 8th, 2018

Microsoft has included a surprise feature in its new Edge web browser for Windows 10, in the form of support for the ultra-optimizable Asm.js JavaScript dialect.  First developed by Mozilla and championed by the nonprofit’s former CTO Brendon Eich, Asm.js is a strict subset of JavaScript that aims to be the “assembly language of the web.”