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Goddamn, the frequency of Rust-related articles on the front page must be really telling something positive about this language and its community.

• jimmy1 8y ago
  > must be really telling something positive about this language and its community. It's because it's the new shiny thing. This basically used to be a ruby on rails post-it board, then C# for a while, then Java when Java 8 Streams were announced, then Go, etc. I am not saying it's a bad thing -- in fact I can't wait to go through that "write an OS in Rust" blog that was posted here earlier -- but no I don't think it's telling of anything quite yet.
  • zellyn 8y ago
    It's not just because it's shiny. Rust happens to (a) be a great fit for the parts of WebAssembly that have been implemented so far (partly because it doesn't need GC), and (b) have done a really good job of building WebAssembly tooling with nicer ergonomics than other languages.
    • seanmcdirmid 8y ago
      WASM is the new and shiny also. I'm not even sure what to do with it ATM given that the DOM story still hasn't been figured out.
      • swsieber 8y ago
        Even though the DOM story hasn't been figured out, firefox has recently done work to make WASM <-> JS calls performant. So now things like Yew will probably be usable from a performance standpoint[0]. But apart from the DOM, it's good for CPU intensive things[1]. [0] Yew: https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew [1] Refactoring a CPU intensive JS thing: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with-rust-and-webassembly/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...
      • mnemonik 8y ago
        There is a DOM story: host bindings. It just isn't implemented yet. However, that doesn't mean that you can't use it now. wasm-bindgen is essentially a polyfill for host bindings plus some other little things. Some resources to check out if you want to learn more: * Host bindings: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/proposals/host-bindings/Overview.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro... * More info about web-sys (web-sys is like the raw libc for the web): https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/web-sys/index.html https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/web-sys/index.html * API documentation for web-sys: https://docs.rs/web-sys/0.3.2/web_sys/ https://docs.rs/web-sys/0.3.2/web_sys/ * DOM hello world example: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html * A mini MS Paint style example: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/paint.html https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/paint.html * An FM synth in WebAudio: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/web-audio.html https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/web-audio.h...
      • zellyn 8y ago
        As a child raised on 80s 8-bit computers, and a fan of emulation, I love what WASM does for in-browser emulators. You can run an enormous amount of Apple II, Commodore 64, etc. software on archive.org, all compiled using emscripten.
  • dboreham 8y ago
    You forgot Haskell..
    • dang 8y ago
      And for a year or two it was Node.js.
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• topspin 8y ago
  I regularly hit a search [1] to pick up Rust related stories. Most Rust-related articles don't make the front page and most see no comment activity at all. Lately the WASM+Rust stories see a lot of activity. Also, some 'I learned Rust and this is what I think about it' type blog posts attract comments. The rest do not. 10 hours ago: "Ask HN: Rust, anyone?" asking who is using Rust in production. No replies. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rust&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rust&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0...
  • TomMarius 8y ago
    I completely missed that post even though I'd have definitely replied. Maybe just bad timing.