Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
by kbenson on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:20AM
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In that respect, I think Servo and Firefox is the big project. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the direction you look at it from), due to Mozilla's putting good engineering principles ahead of marketing and pulling in proven pieces of Rust code from Servo piecemeal, most people will likely never know. The best we can hope for is not that it's just a win, but that it's such a large, obvious win that when people go "How is Firefox so awesome"? the answer is Rust. That's a tall order to fill. :/
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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
by maxxxxx on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:15PM
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" putting good engineering principles ahead of marketing and pulling in proven pieces of Rust code from Servo piecemeal, most people will likely never know"
That's really not a good strategy. At work I can't just start using Rust without justification but if I can point at large projects being written in Rust suddenly has credibility.
Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
by kbenson on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:04PM
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For marketing a language? No, unless you ruthlessly capitalize on every small change.
For iterating on large changes to a stable secure web browser used by many millions? It seems to have worked well for them so far.
Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
by maxxxxx on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:41PM
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The problem is that if Rust doesn't establish itself in the broader market then the effort of developing it and adding to the browser is pretty questionable. You generally don't want code in a language nobody else uses.
I hope rust will make it but it's very hard to establish a language long-term.