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Point me at one fast moving “large client side app” that uses Rust via WASM over Typescript and I will move my entire company over

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Not Rust, but Figma (which everyone seem to love) is using C++ and Web Assembly and they seem to be moving quite fast. I guess it’s not the entire stack but still, seems viable for them.

They use those things for some very specific math-heavy transforms and rendering - still all Javascript for the UI. I’ve used WASM for some ffmpeg-in-browser stuff too.

The belief in WASM as a method to build client-facing software is an amusing self own. There is literally no production examples because it is not production ready for dom-heavy stuff.

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