Starting in 2017, Web Browsers began supporting [[WebAssembly]], a technology standardized by the [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]]. The Webassembly stardard specifies a binary format that is produced by a backend compiler toolchain such as [[LLVM]] and executes aat near native speed. Further, the introduction of WebAssemebly Technology into the Web Browsers allows other programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, etc. to directly compete against Javascript as the in-browser scripting language of the world wide web.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2017/11/06/edge-webassembly.aspx|title=Edge Browser Switches WebAssembly to 'On' -- Visual Studio Magazine|website=Visual Studio Magazine}}</ref>
