Comment by sunfish

The big news here is coordinated announcements from multiple browsers:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/10/31/webassembly-b...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/10/webassembly-browser-previe...

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/10/webassembly-browser-pr...

[edited to make links clickable]