Single Page Applications using Rust

Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by dom96 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:35AM (#24121460)

Are we? There are and have been plenty of languages that target JavaScript for many years now. What does webasm actually enable that wasn't possible before?

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Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by flohofwoe on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:50PM (#24122471)

Performance (asm.js was pretty close but required special support from the JS engine too).

But maybe more importantly: WASM frees Javascript from the future burden of being both a human-friendly programming language, and a machine-friendly compilation target.

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Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by fulafel on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:02PM (#24213695)

Performance for a few low-level languages yes (Rust, C/C++), but with the GC support stalled and even less developed language interop story, there isn't anything in the horizon that promises to make it a good platform for today's HLL's. Meanwhile there are many nice HLL's targeting JSVM with good performance.

I think the human friendliness transition happened already when most JS programmers started compiling their JS-version-du-jour to legacy-JS.

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Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:05PM (#24124484)

Plugins already made that performance possible.

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Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by gameswithgo on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:03PM (#24121867)

As per usual in the world of languages, nothing new is possible, but things can be easier and perform better.

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Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by camgunz on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:29PM (#24122197)

This is what WebAssembly has to say about it: https://webassembly.org/docs/faq/

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