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A comment on Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by logn on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @04:12PM (#16171872)
@sjrd is talking about limitations for JS not other languages.

C, C++, Rust and others already have their own DOM/JS support.

WASM is exciting for statically typed languages especially. JS is not the target. It might eventually benefit from faster parsing but that's not the motive now.

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by pas on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:49AM (#16176409)
> C, C++, Rust and others already have their own DOM/JS support.

What does that mean? Could you expand on that?

Can Rust code compiled to wasm manipulate the DOM?

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by logn on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:11PM (#16179638)
Rust -- https://github.com/koute/stdweb

C++ -- https://github.com/mbasso/asm-dom

I don't know exactly how these work but Emscripten allows interop both ways (embedding JS in native code and calling native code from JS) -- https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/conne...

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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by steveklabnik on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:46AM (#16176969)
Via calling through JavaScript, yes. Wasm itself can't directly manipulate the DOM.

I'm not sure what your parent means.

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