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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 n

by 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.

by zellyn 8y ago

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.