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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by steveklabnik on Sunday December 16, 2018 @01:38AM (#18692042)
This is literally true, but last I checked, Go’s minimum size was about a megabyte, Blazor’s was 300k, and Rust’s is ~100 bytes. That’s what your parent means.
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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by hu3 on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:51AM (#18692435)
No, parent clearly wrote that Webassembly is limited to Rust and C due to having no Garbage Collection. Which, as I demonstrated, is just wrong.
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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by bayesian_horse on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:31AM (#18692405)
That's only a problem for more traditional websites. For applications 1MB is just not an issue.

I imagine there will be some kind of CDN/cache to distribute runtimes. Maybe even a WASM package management system for browsers?

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by steveklabnik on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:38AM (#18692417)
As I said above, this is true for an app, but you wouldn’t want it for every library. That adds up very quick.

A CDN may happen; there’s some details that make it tough. We’ll see.

npm is already that package manager :)

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by krapp on Sunday December 16, 2018 @06:46AM (#18692709)
>npm is already that package manager :)

No, we should be working to replace NPM and the bad influence of the javascript community, not double down on their ubiquity. We should be able to do a lot better than sticking with NPM and wrapping everything in Chromium.

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by bayesian_horse on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:21AM (#18692502)
No need to replace the millions of packages in npm. I predict there will never be a shortage of new javascript frameworks...

No, npm is not THAT package manager. What I am talking about is a way for a user's Browser to download for example a Python 3.7.1 runtime (and similar packages) once, and use it on different sites and applications.

In the simplest form Google or Python.org could serve these files on a CDN. In a more complicated form you could run an application on a range of Python versions, and only download updates when you want and need them.

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Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019 by steveklabnik on Sunday December 16, 2018 @05:55AM (#18692572)
Ah, yeah. We’ll see if it happens.
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