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brundolf on Sept 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reality Check for Cloudflare Wasm Workers and Rust

That's fair, but still, you'll be pulling in a lot of really fundamental stuff that JavaScript gets for free. String manipulation, fundamental data structures, iterators, HTTP, JSON (de)serialization, etc.

mst on Sept 18, 2021 [–]

One of the examples he mentioned was 200Kb.

That's still a lot more than "a single file of javascript", certainly, but it's not that bad.

Trade-offs all the way down, as ever.

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