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Re:TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++ by transitivebs on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:31PM (#30949971)
Really interesting article.

I was doing some high-level research on a related question the other day: https://transitivebullsh.it/webassembly-research-9e231b80e6d...

I know you've responded to a few people on here that Assemblyscript doesn't address the main issues you're talking about in the article, but honestly it does have a lot of things going for it.

I'd love to see a more direct breakdown of this space that explains why prior works like assemblyscript, nectarjs, walt, etc all fall short, and where an ideal solution would need to do better.

^^ this is the type of thing I'd love to chat about if you're interested btw

Re:TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++ by janpaul123 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:27PM (#30951083)
Nectarjs is interesting; I wasn't aware of that. How did it manage to avoid (for example) a garbage collector without making changes to the language?