TL;DR:
- "almost fast as native code for web browsers” - in case you wanna do some expensive computing without a server
- "Compiling Existing Applications for the Browser" - port existing code into the browser (eg cpp apps)
Re:Is Rust web yet?
by arethuza on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:49AM
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Using webasm as a general purpose platform for the execution of untrusted code is also pretty interesting - this might be within server side code or non-browser desktop apps.
TL;DR: - "almost fast as native code for web browsers” - in case you wanna do some expensive computing without a server - "Compiling Existing Applications for the Browser" - port existing code into the browser (eg cpp apps)