1: 2017 is such an exciting time for the web, and I'm loving how much it's fitting in with the Glimmer work. - WASM is finally here, and Glimmer is teed up to use it directly pretty soon. - Firefox shipped Rust, which is also going to make front-end WASM awesome
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2: - (specifically, Rust to WASM is going to be a thing and open up very low-level front-end code to way more people) - Glimmer's gonna be using Rust to WASM if everything continues to go well. - Fine-grained parallelism with SharedArrayBuffer is here,
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3: (on top of the existing transferrables), and DOMChangeList is going to make it possible to batch up a whole bunch of DOM work in a worker and apply it all at once. Glimmer is going to have a polyfill for this that uses Rust-to-WASM pretty soon.
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4/4: So much awesome! It's a great time to be building web infrastructure. The richness of the primitives we have available would have shocked the pants off of 2005 (or even 2010)
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I’m excited about it as well. I’ve started using Rust for my hobby game development, and i’m excited to see what can be done with it from there. One question I do have. Glimmer referring to?https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-vm …
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