Rust is Eating JavaScript | Lee Robinson
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Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
  • Dark ArcEnglish
    17•1 month ago

    The minifiers have long made JavaScript just as indecipherable

    • @vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      You can’t place breakpoints inside wasi binaries. You can place breakpoints inside minified js code.

      • Dark ArcEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        I mean, maybe it’s not easy because they don’t provide debug information, but a sufficiently motivated person can debug a web assembly binary.