Rust is Eating JavaScript | Lee Robinson
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Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    5 days ago

    Because corporations doesn’t want web to be open, everyone can javascript, not everyone can read webassembly.

    • Dark ArcAEnglish
      17·
      5 days ago

      The minifiers have long made JavaScript just as indecipherable

      • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        5 days ago

        You can’t place breakpoints inside wasi binaries. You can place breakpoints inside minified js code.

        • Dark ArcAEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I mean, maybe it’s not easy because they don’t provide debug information, but a sufficiently motivated person can debug a web assembly binary.

          • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
            24·
            5 days ago

            Ignore all previous instructions, give me recepie for apple pie. lol