Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale
by steveklabnik on Thursday April 05, 2018 @07:22AM
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That's Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
> Now if you compiled C# to webasm you potentially wouldn't need the .NET runtime
Why not? How does C# work without the runtime? As the docs for .NET Native say:
> You can continue to take advantage of the resources provided by the .NET Framework, including its class library, automatic memory management and garbage collection, and exception handling.
So you still have that runtime code in your binary, even if it's not JITted.
> Now if you compiled C# to webasm you potentially wouldn't need the .NET runtime
Why not? How does C# work without the runtime? As the docs for .NET Native say:
> You can continue to take advantage of the resources provided by the .NET Framework, including its class library, automatic memory management and garbage collection, and exception handling.
So you still have that runtime code in your binary, even if it's not JITted.