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by csomar 937 days ago
Will there be any support for Wasm as a target for compilation?
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rusbus 937 days ago
Yep! There are actually examples that use Web Assembly: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-rust/tree/main/examples/w...
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csomar 937 days ago
So is there an indication/documentation which packages are wasm-supported or is this a kind of try and find out type of situation?
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jupp0r 937 days ago
Why would this be specific to the SDK? If the code is Rust without any native libraries being linked, WASM should work out of the box.
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rusbus 937 days ago
Although this is true in theory, in practice you need to be very careful when writing code if you want to target WASM. One example: `SystemTime::now` will panic on some WASM platforms!
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jupp0r 936 days ago
True, but library authors shouldn't work around those bugs. It just creates a whole lot of unnecessary legacy code in the wrong places.
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csomar 937 days ago
I wish this was true but it isn't.
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