Goddamn, the frequency of Rust-related articles on the front page must be really telling something positive about this language and its community.
It's because it's the new shiny thing. This basically used to be a ruby on rails post-it board, then C# for a while, then Java when Java 8 Streams were announced, then Go, etc.
I am not saying it's a bad thing -- in fact I can't wait to go through that "write an OS in Rust" blog that was posted here earlier -- but no I don't think it's telling of anything quite yet.
However, that doesn't mean that you can't use it now. wasm-bindgen is essentially a polyfill for host bindings plus some other little things.
Some resources to check out if you want to learn more:
* Host bindings: https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings/blob/master/pro...
* More info about web-sys (web-sys is like the raw libc for the web): https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/web-sys/index.html
* API documentation for web-sys: https://docs.rs/web-sys/0.3.2/web_sys/
* DOM hello world example: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html
* A mini MS Paint style example: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/paint.html
* An FM synth in WebAudio: https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/web-audio.h...
[0] Yew: https://github.com/DenisKolodin/yew [1] Refactoring a CPU intensive JS thing: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...
Lately the WASM+Rust stories see a lot of activity. Also, some 'I learned Rust and this is what I think about it' type blog posts attract comments. The rest do not. 10 hours ago: "Ask HN: Rust, anyone?" asking who is using Rust in production. No replies.
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rust&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0...