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by zozbot234 1556 days ago
Not just native code either, Rust also makes WASM development practical in a way few other languages can.
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lumost 1556 days ago
That is one of the appeals of rust for me. I want one language that I can flip from

- Native

- Web

- Distributed

- ML

- Service

programming without having to switch toolchains. Rust is surprisingly close to achieving this.

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hcabral 1556 days ago
This is indeed an interesting point. I've worked with C/C++ and every single project or experience had some peculiarity: the platform, the compiler, some version limitation, etc.
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cyber_kinetist 1556 days ago
For that I see it as a matter of tooling more than the language design: wasm is nicely integrated into cargo and is maintained far better than other choices. You can also compile C/C++ to WASM if you want (and the language semantics definitely allows for it, since it doesn't have a garbage collector), but you just really don't want to deal with CMake while doing so.
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jatone 1556 days ago
garbage collector isn't a limiting factor for wasm.

my main issue with wasm is no standard interopt for primitive types. thankfully some sort of FFI is in the works from my understanding.

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cyber_kinetist 1555 days ago
In theory yes, but in practice managed languages need native GC support because garbage collectors in WASM code are quite slow. There's a proposal in the works: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...
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