[user249]

Rust is a great solution to the memory safety problem, but is more difficult to use and slower to compile than some other languages. I'm wondering why I would use Rust for WebAssembly, which doesn't have memory safety issues?

[davidatbu]

My impression here is that (1) you don't want a language that you'd have to ship a runtime with (any interpreted language, Go, Swift), (2) Rust WASM tooling/documentation is (much?) better than tooling for other languages, and (3) most people would prefer memory safety when it comes to a purely memory-safety-to-compile-time trade-off.

[marcosdumay]

> which doesn't have memory safety issues

What exactly do you mean by that? WASM is assembly, the memory management is entirely manual, and it's currently a very bad target for garbage collection.

Anyway, Rust has more advantages than memory safety.

[masklinn]

Because a crash or a data corruption is not great either?