Re:Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
by bayesian_horse on Sunday December 16, 2018 @04:28AM
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There are plans to get garbage collection support into WASM, but GC is already possible, just not native.
In my opinion the major benefit of WASM over Javascript is that it allows different runtimes to be used in browsers.
Python for example has the pyodide project, which works quite well. But its download sizes are totally ridiculous. Which may not matter for certain applications, and even then, there should be a way to host and cache such runtimes for multiple applications or websites.
In my opinion the major benefit of WASM over Javascript is that it allows different runtimes to be used in browsers.
Python for example has the pyodide project, which works quite well. But its download sizes are totally ridiculous. Which may not matter for certain applications, and even then, there should be a way to host and cache such runtimes for multiple applications or websites.