Vyacheslav Egorov personal blog
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS
Few weeks ago I noticed a blog post "Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly" making rounds on Twitter - talking about performance benefits of replacing plain JavaScript in the core of source-map library with a Rust version compiled to WebAssembly.
- Points
- 600
- HN comments
- 266
- Submissions
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- 9 commenters
Programming LanguagesWeb & Frontend2018
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2018 | Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS by youngtaff | 600 | 181 |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS (2018) by zbentley | 126 | 85 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 9 Hacker News comments by 9 different people, from Feb 2018 to Jan 2026.
Most recent:
- testdelacc1 · Jan 8, 2026
- masklinn · Nov 3, 2022
- cesarb · Jul 15, 2022
- maga · Feb 1, 2022
- davidmurdoch · Mar 2, 2021
- spion · Feb 15, 2020