Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
by solarkraft on Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:56PM
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> 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.
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.