RustConf 2019 - From Electron, to Wasm, to Rust (Aaand Back to Electron) by Irina Shestak

So you heard you can run WebAssembly in the browser, but what does this look like IRL? Seeking the much talked about performance benefits of running WASM in the browser, Compass (GUI for MongoDB) took the great leap forward and rewrote part of the application – a schema parser responsible for document analysis – in Rust. As it turns out, the rumours are true, I repeat the rumours are true: offloading parts …