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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by vlovich123 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:49AM (#17091736)
Can you clarify this point? To me it would seem with Rust being able to target WASM/ASM.js that you could indeed target all the same environments JS does.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by regularfry on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:56PM (#17093680)
Emscripten means that's not a distinguishing feature from C or C++.
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Re:A pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node and brow... by vlovich123 on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:06AM (#17098855)
My response was to the last part that there's an environment where Javascript can run but Rust can't. I agree that C/C++ targets are a strict superset but I'll posit that for all the architectures that matter it's the same surface area at which point the calculation for which to use is about ease-of-use, correctness, etc.
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