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alexcrichton

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    Comment #18284439

    Oh dear sorry about this, it's a little too non-obvious how to see the demo! I've [pushed a small commit]( https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen/commit/f016ae5846bf... ) to upda…

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    Comment #12270453

    The futures crate is intended to be the successor to eventual, the author of which, Carl, helped us with some key insights in the futures crate as well.

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    Comment #12269950

    In Rust it's frequently the case that slow compilations are dominated by generating and optimizing LLVM IR. This codegen step (generating LLVM IR) often takes awhile just because w…

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    Comment #12269418

    You can indeed use this on stable Rust today! Right now 1.9.0 is the minimum supported version due to the usage of `catch_panic` in a few places. I'd recommend a beta compiler for …

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    Comment #11692226

    Excitingly, today! If you run the rustup install script on an arm64 device it should "Just Work", but if it doesn't end up detecting arm64 you can download rustup and/or the compil…

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    Comment #9780753

    In addition to not interacting with the GNU toolchain at all (through MinGW), MSVC support will indeed enable native Windows debug info (as you mentioned) so native tools can be us…

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    Comment #9435130

    It does indeed! Due to Rust's lack of a garbage collector or runtime altogether, when C calls into Rust there is no overhead. In the example in the blog post [1] you can see that t…

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    Comment #9435116

    If you omit the `#[no_mangle]` definition then the compiler will end up emitting a mangled symbol (e.g. one with a long hash at the end that's hard to guess). Many C APIs take a ca…