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The 5% gains over minified code are impressive given that BinJS performs no AST manipulation.

The BinJS prototype will be written in pure javascript I assume to speed its adoption?

For the moment, it's JS + Rust, because Rust is better than JS when you keep refactoring Big Hairy Data Structures. However, once the data structures stabilize we're planning to shift it entirely to JS.

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