I'm actually using WASM (from Rust) on a image editor project. It's pretty good - I see around a 4x perf improvement over JS depending on the benchmark. But wh

I'm actually using WASM (from Rust) on a image editor project. It's pretty good - I see around a 4x perf improvement over JS depending on the benchmark. But what happened? Why am I not using it for all of my other random side projects? I posit that the JS ecosystem got so incredibly good that it it's a no-brainer for a very large percentage of workflows. React + Vite + TypeScript is an incredibly productive stack. I can use it to build all but the most demanding apps productively. Additionally, JS is pretty fast these days, so the speed boost from WASM isn't actually that meaningful for most use cases. Only really heavy use cases like media editing or Figma-like apps really benefit from what WASM has to offer.