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Does anyone know what the consequences for this will be? WASM was what motivated me to learn Rust.

dom96 6y ago
I doubt anyone knows what the impact will be, all we can do is speculate. In the very short-term, I would definitely be surprised if we don't see it have a negative impact on the development of Rust and certain Rust projects such as wasmtime. In particular because so many of the top contributors appear to be full-time Mozilla employees[1]. 1 - https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/graphs/contributors https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/graphs/contribu...
coreblocks 6y ago
Time to put your eggs in Swift! :)
- poletopole 6y ago
  I learned Swift several years back, but didn't see myself using it until SwiftUI came to be. I have my fingers crossed for RustUI.
  - benibela 6y ago
    I use Pascal With Lazarus is has a cross platform Desktop GUI
    - poletopole 6y ago
      Lazarus actually is impressive considering lack of the non-swift alternatives out there and that React Native still doesn't have desktop support. I'm glad you shared, because Pascal is a language I never looked into before, but it seems like it was ahead of its time, but I wonder if there are any modern dialects?
      - cy_hauser 6y ago
        >> I wonder if there are any modern dialects? No there are not. It's extremely frustrating that Free Pascal and Delphi's Pascal are stuck with all the annoying baggage that more modern languages have been able to skip.
      - benibela 6y ago
        FreePascal and Delphi are still modern. FreePascal just added RAII for automated memory management with records. Delphi now has anonymous functions and some kind of type inference for variables
williamstein 6y ago
He just added another tweet to address this question: "Another thing to clarify: Rust, Wasmtime, and the Bytecode Alliance will all be more than fine! [...] They all have a bright future!"
- poletopole 6y ago
  Damn, that was a cliffhanger.
yannikyeo 6y ago
Maybe Cloudflare to come to the rescue? as their Workers platform supports WASM and they use Rust in some projects.

I doubt anyone knows what the impact will be, all we can do is speculate. In the very short-term, I would definitely be surprised if we don't see it have a negative impact on the development of Rust and certain Rust projects such as wasmtime. In particular because so many of the top contributors appear to be full-time Mozilla employees[1]. 1 - https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/graphs/contributors https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/graphs/contribu...

coreblocks 6y ago

Time to put your eggs in Swift! :)

poletopole 6y ago
I learned Swift several years back, but didn't see myself using it until SwiftUI came to be. I have my fingers crossed for RustUI.
- benibela 6y ago
  I use Pascal With Lazarus is has a cross platform Desktop GUI
  - poletopole 6y ago
    Lazarus actually is impressive considering lack of the non-swift alternatives out there and that React Native still doesn't have desktop support. I'm glad you shared, because Pascal is a language I never looked into before, but it seems like it was ahead of its time, but I wonder if there are any modern dialects?
    - cy_hauser 6y ago
      >> I wonder if there are any modern dialects? No there are not. It's extremely frustrating that Free Pascal and Delphi's Pascal are stuck with all the annoying baggage that more modern languages have been able to skip.
    - benibela 6y ago
      FreePascal and Delphi are still modern. FreePascal just added RAII for automated memory management with records. Delphi now has anonymous functions and some kind of type inference for variables

williamstein 6y ago

He just added another tweet to address this question: "Another thing to clarify: Rust, Wasmtime, and the Bytecode Alliance will all be more than fine! [...] They all have a bright future!"

poletopole 6y ago
Damn, that was a cliffhanger.

yannikyeo 6y ago

Maybe Cloudflare to come to the rescue? as their Workers platform supports WASM and they use Rust in some projects.