Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding

Re:Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding by cnity on Monday February 06, 2023 @10:54AM (#34679194)

Any Go WASM solution will come with big performance costs and complexity that are worth considering:

1. Since WASM doesn't yet expose a feature to share GC with the host, the GC functionality with necessarily be bundled with your outputted code, making your WASM size larger than ideal.

2. All calls from WASM have to go through a JS layer in order to interact with the Web APIs anyway, so now you actually have _two_ GCs to run.

3. The developer experience is going to be poor unless you write a shit ton of wrappers for the existing DOM API.

I say the above not to dissuade you, I find WASM an attractive value proposition and use WASM in all sorts of ways in personal projects. Good luck

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Re:Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding by marcus_holmes on Monday February 06, 2023 @07:35PM (#34686782)

I'm not bothered about GC's - the size is a problem, but I've never had to worry about GC performance issues yet.

Everything else is spot on, that's the pain!

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Re:Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding by cnity on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @05:24AM (#34690962)

You probably know about this, but it might be worth trying TinyGo[0] for WASM, given that WASM is basically an embedded environment.

0: https://tinygo.org/

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