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by jitl 1212 days ago
AssemblyScript seems like a pointless also-ran. Why pick a language with very little support or community for your native code when you could pick Rust or C++? For any substantial app, I think an investment with Rust would be much better than an equal sized investment into AssemblyScript.

I think Rust will be around in 5 years. Will AssemblyScript?

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It’s just a subset of TypeScript that compiles more directly to WASM and just as easily to JavaScript itself.