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1 year agoWe’re replacing protocols with Rust now?
We’re replacing protocols with Rust now?
Dude, stop looking at your phone!
Do they turn yellow?
This is it.
WebAssembly AFAICT is all about making existing code runnable in a JavaScript environment. JavaScript isn’t great itself, but Chrome provides pretty amazing tooling, so it’s good enough.
Add to that: if you want to write WASM in a strongly typed language, you need support libraries that define all of the browser primitives. If you’re an accomplished web developer, it’s more effective to stay in js.
They can. They just choose not to.