What Exactly Is a Cloud-Native Application?

Born to be...cloud-native?

What is a cloud-native application in the context of cloud computing? And do “cloud-based” and “cloud-native” refer to the very same type of architecture?

Does cloud-native development mean using a specific set of methodologies and tools or simply hosting, running and managing your app in a specific environment?

WebAssembly vs. JavaScript

“Will WebAssembly replace JavaScript by 20XX?” This is one of those “sensationalizing” questions of the moment, right? But still: if we were to run a WebAssembly vs. JavaScript performance comparison, which one would be the winner?

And would we have the same winner for different implementations?