So is this still converting the Rust code to Web Assembly (just doing it in a more developer friendly way)?

Or is this allowing actual Rust code to run natively on the Cloudflare Workers environment?

I ask because there is a significant difference in performance between native Rust and Web ASM.

EDIT: I found this benchmark [0]. It appears you can run Rust 3 different ways. 1. Natively (fastest), 2. Node with Rust Bindings (2x slower than native), or 3. wasm (8x slower than native).

I wonder if this announcement is Cloudflare supporting the #2 configuration above (Node with Rust Bindings).

[0] https://github.com/PSeitz/wana_kana_rust/tree/master/bench_c...