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SlashData: Rust sees fastest growth, JavaScript still dominates (www.developer-tech.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (50 children)

I wish death upon it, but it just won't die. I guess that's cuz it's the only frontend. Or at least the only frontend that allows DOM manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

That's exactly it. Every single webapp in the world has some level of javascript in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

thanks to wasm any language is a browser running language. JS is relegated to some token binding boilerplate as part of any framework and with things like servo/tauri rendering html will be pure rust

[–] coloredgrayscale 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

thanks to wasm any language is a browser running language.

Theoretically yes, practically you may have to deliver a whole runtime depending on the languagey making websites even bigger and slower to load initially. And unless it's a webapp with data processing on the client the perceived performance benefits may be negligible.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Noob question here. What's DOM manipulation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Document ObjectModel. Think using code to add a JavaScript to make a drodown menu appear like for a navigation bar. That would be manipulation. And I think there's so much more Angular and React do with DOM that I don't know enough to explain it.

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[–] pkill 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

wonder when Rust will saturate it's niche as a C/C++ replacement, I'd guess 3-6 years would be when we might start to see some stabilization.

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 4 months ago

I think it will take much longer than that. There is so much legacy C++ code. Maybe 10-15 years.

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