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>It sounds more like Rust gave you that choice

Yes, but there's also a reason why the Rust -> JS route never took off.

Wasm is positioning itself as the common runtime for a lot of frontends (term borrowed from LLVM). You could see it as some sort of spiritual successor to the JVM, and it may actually accomplish the goal of "Write once, run anywhere" to a much greater extent.

(Btw, I am not criticizing Java here, I've worked with it and the JVM and other derivative languages for almost a decade and they all are quite valuable tools!)



>Yes, but there's also a reason why the Rust -> JS route never took off.

What is this reason?




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