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?
  • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    Yeah, you need to have some JS to manipulate graphics, so the Rust web frameworks have a JS shim to do that and communicate with the WebAssembly Rust code as necessary. It works surprisingly well tho.

    • @sabin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      Wasm bindgen is an absolute nightmare of auto-generated function names. From a purely performance/functionality perspective it works but it’s hella ugly. I hope some alternative arrives at some point.