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		legerdemain on Feb 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pic... My understanding is that to get reasonable WASM file sizes, one must use tinygo (a C reimplementation). tinygo is a WIP, although I wish I could find a better updated description of what's missing than this page on their site: https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/

d-z-m on Feb 19, 2023 [–]

This page[0] seems to have some good information(on stdlib support at least).

As far as file sizes go, you're right. It might be possible to get better results deploying a brotli'd or gzipped file instead[1].

[0]:https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/stdlib/ [1]:https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WebAssembly#reducing-the-s...

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