AWhat changed
A shared portable low-level target for web execution received a rigorous design and semantics.
Scientific scope
Nine-author PLDI 2017 paper; standard process, later extensions and engine implementations excluded.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact 2017 PLDI paper. The evolving WebAssembly standard, individual engines, post-MVP features, browser deployment and the wider open-source contributor community remain separate.
Contributors
- Andreas Haas · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Andreas Rossberg · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Derek L. Schuff · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Ben L. Titzer · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Michael Holman · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Dan Gohman · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Luke Wagner · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Alon Zakai · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- JF Bastien · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- Haas et al., Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly
- Crossref record for WebAssembly PLDI paper
Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.
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