PEpeutetre·Dec 1, 2024
> You still need to access the DOM, which can't be done directly from WASM. Maybe someday it will happen?
You can access the DOM through JavaScript glue. These Rust WASM frameworks do that:
- Leptos: https://www.leptos.dev/
- Sycamore: https://sycamore.dev/
- Yew: https://yew.rs/
- Dioxus: https://dioxuslabs.com/
Eventually you won't need the glue.
> Okay, so use canvas instead and do all UI inside WASM?
You can do that too. That's what this VB6 clone written in C# and compiled to WebAssembly does:
- https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
- https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6
> vague "JavaScript limitations"
It's not vague. Despite 28 years of effort optimizing JavaScript, WebAssembly outperforms it:
- https://nuenki.app/blog/bloom_filters_optimisation
- https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
Read the rest
- https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-...
- https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc
That's a kick to the groin that's tough to walk off.