assemblyscript VS rust

I like your take but JavaScript was literally the assembly language of the web until WASM came along. There was no other language that TypeScript could compile to.

This train of thought lead me to discover AssemblyScript! https://www.assemblyscript.org/

Incidentally, it’s also what AssemblyScript uses: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/s...

Use it as a Front-End for other low-level languages.

> MHO typescript could just cut loose from its javascript compatibility. Why not compile it to wasm instead of transpiling it to javascript?

Check out AssemblyScript which is exactly that:

https://www.assemblyscript.org/

If you're curious, check out AssemblyScript, that might describe better what needs to be cut from TypeScript to make it possible to be compiled to WASM.

This is kinda the idea behind AssemblyScript, but IIRC it's more of a low-level typescript-ish syntax for WebAssembly.

https://www.assemblyscript.org/ maybe, but I'm not sure exactly what you need.

Exactly, WASM was designed to be very very lightweight... you can put a lot of logic into a very small amount of WASM, but you need a good compiler to do that, or write WASM by hand to really feel the benefit. If you just compile Go to WASM, with its GC, runtime and stdlib included in the binary, yeah it's going to be pretty heavy... Rust doesn't have a runtime but as you said, for some reason, produces relatively large binaries (not the case only in WASM by the way). Probably, the best ways to create small WASM binaries is to compile from C or from a WASM-native language like AssemblySCript (https://www.assemblyscript.org).

Well we have all the new ECMA standards that will be introduced in 5 years now. It's looking more like Java actually. its accessor and typing patterns match it the most. TypeScript has had quite the profound influence over future ECMA design. There is a not so well known project called AssemblyScript which I think has a promising future. Since future ecma standards closely resembles it and TypeScripts popularity has exploded I have a feeling it may become a real standard as well.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/128271

This one was fun too:

Install Rust: To get started with Rust, you need to install it on your computer. Rust provides an installer called rustup that makes it easy to get started. You can download the installer from rust-lang.org.

I never heard of "German strings" in place of the small string optimization before! And there had been way too many proposals to add such types to the standard library [1] [2] [3] [4]. My understanding is that:

1. Both `Vec` and `String` should share the same layout as part of the standard library's contract.

2. Unlike `String`, the equivalent optimization for `Vec` is more questionable especially when T might be any type. C++ standard libraries frequently do implement multiple layouts for std::string but not for std::vector for the same reason.

3. Rust never allows an implicit copying of `String` in the first place, which greatly benefits from the SSO, so the lack of SSO in Rust is less important compared to C++.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/4991

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/20198

[3] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2990

[4] https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues/4...

Rust: Install Rust from rust-lang.org.

Which is an implementation of Language Server Protocol for Rust programming language. It provide a lot of useful features for your development in Rust, such as code completion, syntax highlighting, inlay hints, etc. You can checkout the manual of rust analyzer to know more about it.

If you encounter compiler errors that are misleading in their suggestions, or have proposals for better output in specific cases, please file a ticket: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%...

Author here!

I have no idea why this blog is making the rounds again and I've learned a lot of Rust since, see my (badly benchmarked!) presentation at this year's Scientific Computing in Rust 2024:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdsBhqKOe7A

and a PR I sent in for the Rust compiler to speed it up for some low hanging fruit:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/110477

I'll have to revisit this blog at some point and see what I should update, as well as a "From Rust to Julia" post for those that want to venture into that world as well.

Wrappers is an open source project that simplifies the creation of Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers using Rust.

Rust is a high-level programming language with a strong focus on memory safety created by Graydon Hoare, a former Mozilla employee as a personal project in 2006. Memory-safe languages like Rust have been recommended by the United States Department.