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by mc10 1188 days ago
Until WASM can touch the DOM you’re still going to need JS (and hence, TS).
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nicoburns 1188 days ago
In fairness, rust-in-wasm has pretty complete DOM bindings. You can quite easily write DOM manipulation code in Rust without ever touching JS/TS. Whether that's a good idea is another matter.
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maxloh 1188 days ago
How does that work?
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amaranth 1188 days ago
web-sys[1] generates the binding code using the same IDL files that browsers use to generate their JS bindings to the C++ doing the actual work.

[1] https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/tree/main/crates/we...

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maxloh 1187 days ago
You still need to run JavaScript functions to manipulate the DOM. "without ever touching JS/TS" seems misleading as that implies "no JavaScript code is executed".
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nicoburns 1187 days ago
When I read "touched" I don't think "executed". I think "edited". There is C code executed when I run JavaScript, but that doesn't mean that I had to touch it. Similarly, all the JS run when accessing the DOM from Rust is generated by the library. The user of the library doesn't have to touch it.
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oaiey 1188 days ago
And objects. And so many more things.

Wasm is a cpu or low level operating system and not programming language

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