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The benefits I saw were high performance libraries in the browser and runtimes for multiple languages by just integrating WASM. Sure, not all languages, but ge
by k__ 3y ago
The benefits I saw were high performance libraries in the browser and runtimes for multiple languages by just integrating WASM.
Sure, not all languages, but getting Rust and C/C++ out-of-the-box for a start seems to be worth it.
Also, it's an open source runtime, so if you integrated it, you get improvements from the community, which is a huge gain for small projects.
- austin-cheney 3y agoC++ and Rust are already open source and there isn't reason to believe applications executed as WASM are faster than near JavaScript equivalents. There is amazing advantage though to just exposing C++/Rust applications without requiring a separate installation or executable for both security and convenience, but I am not seeing much of this in the wild. I think the sand boxed nature of WASM is a bridge too far for many C++/RUST application developers who would then need to include a tremendous number of support library they take for granted outside the browser.