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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale by Vinnl on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:01AM (#16762223)
I don't really mind Javascript that much, although I do agree that there are definitely nicer languages, and that Rust is probably one (I haven't worked with Rust yet).

That said, one really nice thing that I fear we'd lose is the interoperability of the ecosystem. There are a lot of good libraries available for Javascript that help doing webdev, and I wonder what effect fragmentation of languages could have on that. Will we trade having nicer languages for availability of useful libraries in your language of choice?

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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale by steveklabnik on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:12AM (#16763693)
One project you'll hear about soon is wasm-pack; it's a tool that lets you take wasm-bindgen, compile your Rust to wasm, and then upload an npm package containing just the wasm, so that anyone using Node can use your stuff.

The real issue is the various runtimes, not the actual libraries themselves.

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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale by Vinnl on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:07AM (#16764510)
That's a good point, and good news!
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