> I see Rust as the big next step for the web—a language that is still a pleasure to develop in, but with excellent static typing and tight, targeted builds without the bloat and buildup I'm accustomed to seeing with current transpile-to-JS strategies.
Maybe this will happen but it won't be through Emscripten. Emscripten is cool and all but it produces really poor code size-wise. Maybe if you lack JavaScript expertise you'll use this as a stop-gap but for a production system that needs scale I can't see it happening.
Now maybe if it can be compiled into the Web Assembly intermedia? That seems like a good route to take.
That's addressed in the article. The LLVM backend is on the way and Rust will be able to take advantage of it relatively easily, it seems. Emscripten is more of an intermediate step to get Rust working on the web in the meantime—I doubt it's going to be the long-term solution for Rust on the web.
Maybe this will happen but it won't be through Emscripten. Emscripten is cool and all but it produces really poor code size-wise. Maybe if you lack JavaScript expertise you'll use this as a stop-gap but for a production system that needs scale I can't see it happening.
Now maybe if it can be compiled into the Web Assembly intermedia? That seems like a good route to take.