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Re:Show HN: SSVM – Speed up your Node.js apps with Rust and ... by jedisct1 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:56AM (#23779199)
Interesting project, but since this seems to be limited to Rust, what’s the point of WebAssembly, instead of writing JS extensions directly in Rust?
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Re:Show HN: SSVM – Speed up your Node.js apps with Rust and ... by juntao on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:43PM (#23782056)
This is the same reason why people write Java but not C++ Apache extensions on the server side. It is safer and more portable to run bytecode inside containers.
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