Re:We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript – and it go...
by zahrevsky on Saturday March 21, 2026 @11:23AM
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They even directly conclude at the end of the article that improvements in algorithm are more important than the choice of language:
> Algorithmic complexity improvements dominate language-level optimisations. Going from O(N²) to O(N) in the streaming case had a larger practical impact than switching from WASM to TypeScript.
Yet they still have chosen to put the “Rust rewrite” part in the title. I almost think it's a click bait.
> Algorithmic complexity improvements dominate language-level optimisations. Going from O(N²) to O(N) in the streaming case had a larger practical impact than switching from WASM to TypeScript.
Yet they still have chosen to put the “Rust rewrite” part in the title. I almost think it's a click bait.