Rust & Wasm

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  @NoBoilerplate · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  ERRATA<br><br>I was not clear that wasm is only slower than JS in DOM manipulation. If you write pure wasm and webgl, you can smoke JS.

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  @yondaime500 · 4 years ago

  You certainly have a way of making Rust sound like it came to us as a gift from a Kardashev II civilization.

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  @Zedoy · 4 years ago

  Me: Manipulates DOM directly with JS.<br>No_Boilerplate: No one manipulates DOM directly.<br>Me: 😐.

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  @tylerbloom4830 · 4 years ago (edited)

  In my current personal project, I&apos;m writing a backend and several clients all in Rust, including a frontend using Yew. There is one boon that WASM gives you that you didn&apos;t touch on. You can directly share libraries between your backend and frontend. No reimplementation. No bugs from translating between languages. You can ensure that the behavior of your data structures is identical between every piece of the project. Fix a bug once, and you&apos;re done!!<br><br>The message passing pattern showcased is also a fantastic way to handle client-server communication and syncing of shared state.

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  @eboatwright_ · 4 years ago

  I completely agree! I use the game framework Macroquad for little games that I make, and it has support for WASM! No lag, no hassle, just &quot;cargo build --release --target=wasm32-unknown-unknown&quot;!

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  @Kfoo-dj4md · 4 years ago

  Tris makes me feel like I know everything CS related just by knowing rust 😂<br><br>Rust is my favorite language 🦀

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  @ronwabwire · 3 years ago (edited)

  Rust is so blazingly fast, I downloaded and installed it 5 times thinking something was wrong, literally micro seconds installation of the compiler. It was only after running rustc that I found out that the compiler installed already!

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  @sinterkaastosti988 · 4 years ago

  my girlfriend cant compare to this

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  @AndrewBrownK · 4 years ago (edited)

  I’m finally getting to the point I grok the lifetime errors the compiler is complaining about at a glance, and can instantly think where I messed up and where I need to go fix. It used to be that algebraic data types were my gold standard to consider a modern language usable or not, but now I can’t imagine programming without a borrow checker. <br><br>Literally, Ive been working on this personal project (a distributed event framework) for months with type level programming, and at roughly 3500 lines of code before a minimum executable demo, it executed not just successfully but correctly too. Literally first try. I was in shock. I was fully expecting to debug for hours or days. I’m in love with this language.

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  @remiwi2399 · 4 years ago

  I&apos;m learning React right now so I can get a job. If only I could use rust for this! Will definitely look into it more if I ever make my own personal projects.

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  @Hobbitstomper · 4 years ago (edited)

  The biggest downside is still that Wasm can&apos;t interact with the DOM of a website directly and relies on JavaScript. Even if you write everything in Rust to interact with the DOM, Wasm translates it into JS, which then interacts with the DOM. This eventually results in a bottleneck. The guys over at Wasm are saying they&apos;re working on a way around this. I&apos;m sure once they have a solution, browsers will need to add support for that. Once this is solved, that&apos;s when things will get interesting. Imagine websites running on Rust/Wasm with direct access to the DOM api without the need for JavaScript.

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  @mikopiko · 4 years ago

  Man, your content is so minimal, pure &amp; easy to understand.<br>I am addicted to your channel even though I don&apos;t write Rust.

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