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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.

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.

Re:Single Page Applications using Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:05PM (#24124484)
Plugins already made that performance possible.