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This feels like something I needed to hear. Everything I do in life I try to maximize for long term gains, so this tells me that Rust is very likely for me even
by LecroJS 4y ago
This feels like something I needed to hear. Everything I do in life I try to maximize for long term gains, so this tells me that Rust is very likely for me even if it means I’ll make less flashy stuff at first. Also I am definitely interested in wasm and have been hearing about it for a long while but still admittedly can’t put my finger on what it’d really do for me. I generally find my front end performance to not be limited by js thanks to Cloudflare/web workers, but then again I haven’t done anything I’d consider truly heavyweight just yet. I’d be curious if you knew of any interesting rust/wasm use cases, or if you have any thoughts on where that space is headed and why it’d be good to invest in learning it. Thanks for the insightful reply :)
- anotherhue 4y agoWASM is still fairly niche, some immediate/near term use cases might be: advanced animation (beyond CSS), 3D/VR, low-latency / low level work e.g. webUSB. MAYBE some very forward looking web-apps/hybrid apps. There's no disputing that v8 has come a long way, so likely it's not going to be that much of a perf gain, more interesting to me is bringing more advanced languages (such as Rust) into play, great and all as TypeScript is.