The surprise for me was that there are good reasons for doing it - 1) WebAssembly faster / less memory use than JS on client (for high performance apps), 2) Rust best language that compiles to WebAssembly w/o a large standard library with GC etc
TIL (via @frabcus) that people are doing web development in Rust compiled to WebASM. Which is both completely nuts and completely delightful, somehow.
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I keep meaning to play with wasm, but if I decided I liked it a lot, I'd have to try and sort a wasm runtime out for NetSurf which would be painful :/
Jul 9, 2020 ยท 8:20 AM UTC
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