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by stared 1439 days ago
From the user-experience perspective, it matters that it is Rust. Unless you directly write WASM code, which is rarely (ever) the case.

Rust is a language that compiles to WASM. Sure, there are other options to compile to WASM, but they differ by interface (programming language, library, tooling) and (likely to a lesser degree) - performance.
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teucris 1439 days ago
Given the title I had expected this to be a comparison between the js and rust in terms of development, not performance. I learned nothing new about rust by visiting this page. All I learned was that compiled WASM is faster than js.
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marcosdumay 1439 days ago
> All I learned was that compiled WASM is faster than js.

You learned that Rust compiled into WASM is faster than JS. That won't be the case for every language. (We had an example yesterday on the front-page where it wasn't. Ironically, its title implied that it was a generic comparison with WASM.)

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IncRnd 1439 days ago
> From the user-experience perspective, it matters that it is Rust.

From the user-experience perspective, none of the page loads without javascript, so it is all javascript from a customer's perspective.

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