Tag: compiler

Learn About the Syntax of a Scripting Language

For those new to scripting languages, one of the most challenging aspects of writing code is learning how to properly use them. There are a number of good books on this topic, but it’s worth learning about the actual syntax of a scripting language, too. While this article takes the C language as an example,…

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The WebAssembly Project

The WebAssembly project is an attempt to build an assembler for a functional language, called JavaScript. Instead of the usual ‘scripting’ that is used to compile to native code, it attempts to translate the semantics of the JavaScript code into a very similar binary format. This format is called WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a format that…

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