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title: "Isomorphic Desktop Apps with Rust"
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description: "and other buzzwords"
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tags: [rust, javascript]
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I tried to come up with an opening sentence that talked about Javascript without being overly dismissive.
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Instead, you get this.
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And the standard "it's not you, it's me" language applies here. Node pushed out the benefits of an
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asynchronous event loop everywhere, and languages like [Python](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/) and
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[Rust](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2394) are getting in on the game. Javascript, despite being
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a language that often makes you say "[wat](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat)", powers the
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web.
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But here's the thing: I don't like Javascript. I really don't. I don't like:
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- having to manage incredibly complex Typescript/Babel/Webpack/Gulp toolchains
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- having to know any of the above things exist
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- languages where the [runtime specification](http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/9.0/index.html)
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dramatically outpaces [anyone's having actually implemented](https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/)
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the runtime specification
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But here's the thing: I don't like Javascript. I really don't. I cringe every time I hear the word "Webpack".
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A part of me dies inside knowing that Babel exists to paper over the difference between what a committee
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has decided [the language should be](http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/9.0/index.html) and
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[what actually exists](https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/). Not that anyone cares about my
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opinion.
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So, when I hear that "Webassembly" is going to be a thing, I'm thrilled. Requisite jokes about
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[Metal](https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript) aside
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([oh wait, they're not joking](https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8j7y1f/i_am_lachlansneff_creator_of_nebulet_a_rust/)),
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this seems like a fundamentally good way to skip the Babel/Webpack mess and get straight to
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allowing other languages to earn a share of the market that Javascript occupies.
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And I get that [WebAssembly isn't trying to replace JavaScript](https://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#is-webassembly-trying-to-replace-javascript).
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But I want Javascript gone.
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