Think of it more as asm.js the next generation. Wasm is to be another dialect your JavaScript engine understands. In it's initial version it is designed to ful

Think of it more as asm.js the next generation. Wasm is to be another dialect your JavaScript engine understands. In it's initial version it is designed to fully map to asm.js. The main difference between wasm and asm.js at first will be the binary format. Practically speaking it'll lower the file size and start-up time.