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?
  • @[email protected]English
    3•6 months ago

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

    • Dark ArcEnglish
      17•6 months ago

      The minifiers have long made JavaScript just as indecipherable

      • @[email protected]English
        2•6 months ago

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

        • Dark ArcEnglish
          2•6 months 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.