Re:Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
by iopq on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:49AM
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After working with a 300,000 LoC code base of PHP I would gladly rewrite Facebook in Rust. It allows effortless atomic commits. When I build something I make an MVP of a first version, refactor, make an MVP of the next version, refactor, and so on.
Rust lets me make sure my code still works through refactors and code changes. With PHP I could easily break something that would only cause an error when that code actually runs. That's right, there is no sanity check at all until the parser reads that code.
Rust lets me make sure my code still works through refactors and code changes. With PHP I could easily break something that would only cause an error when that code actually runs. That's right, there is no sanity check at all until the parser reads that code.