Rust and WebAssembly in 2019

Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by InGodsName on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:16PM (#18690671)

Figma uses WASM and some claim that it's even faster than natively implemented Sketch.

I am surprised that now it's possible to make a web app as fast as native app.

Is Visual Studio Code using WASM?

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by solarkraft on Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:56PM (#18691169)

> faster than natively implemented

It still depends on your implementation. The same code will take about 1.2x as long to execute in wasm (of course this means that a slightly faster implementation can be faster over all).

> Is Visual Studio Code using WASM?

I have read on HN that they use Rust for some internals, but so far I haven't been able to confirm it. It would make sense for things like intellisense to be compiled, but don't forget that with Electron you can still access the platform with all iits capabilities, so you wouldn't need wasm.

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by gpm on Saturday December 15, 2018 @08:40PM (#18691313)

> I have read on HN that they use Rust for some internals

I know the multi-file search is done via ripgrep, which is written in rust. But it's not compiled to wasm.

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by steveklabnik on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:35PM (#18690742)

Not that I’m aware of.

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