Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16413917

I'm pretty sure that this was already HN-ed 6 months ago.

Nick Fitzgerald's reponse was published here: http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/02/26/speed-without-wizardry....

Reading all of that makes fighting with the rust borrow checker sound like a walk in the park in comparison.

Does anyone think that stringifying a function and re evaluating it in order to manipulate the compiler sounds like a good way to write code?

Yeah the main benefit of WASM is being able to open up more languages to in-browser execution. The fact that some of the languages can be a lot better than JavaScript for some purposes is icing on the cake...

This was all discussed before. The TL;DR conclusion was: yes, you can get very fast javascript, but only if you are a V8 expert and know how to avoid the performance cliffs. If you want reliable performance, WASM is a better bet.

Suggest changing the URL to remove the anchor.

Well then it wouldn't pass the duplicate checker :)