So the port makes sense logically but how easy it is to contribute new features to it? Does the complex memory model (arena) impose complexity?
Port React Compiler to Rust
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Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#42So the port makes sense logically but how easy it is to contribute new features to it? Does the complex memory model (arena) impose complexity?
How is using arenas complex? If anything it should make things simpler to understand to people who are not used to manual memory management.
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#43So the port makes sense logically but how easy it is to contribute new features to it? Does the complex memory model (arena) impose complexity?
I thought arenas were one of the simplest and most easy to deal with and conceptualize memory management strategies around. Arguably easy, even easier to understand and just as easy to manage as GC. Did they do something special?
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#44Are people actually using the react compiler? Haven't heard about since ages ago when it was extremely slow
I think the reason you haven't heard about it is that it just works. It's fast - with Vite 8 my moderately large app compiles in ~800ms, which includes typescript, react compiler etc.
I also took a step to clean out all memo, useMemo, useCallback across the app and so far have not run into any issues from doing this.
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#45Are people actually using the react compiler? Haven't heard about since ages ago when it was extremely slow
We started using it for unifi.ui.com and the render performance gain has been massive.
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#46I love it starts with the usual hand waving,
> This is an experimental, work-in-progress port of React Compiler to Rust. ...
And then gets merged.
So after the craziness to use node on the backend, we are back to using compiled languages to compile Javascript assets and Web resources, just like Java and .NET were doing in the 2000's, however since it is Go and Rust it is cool, not the boring languages grandpas were using on their heyday.
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#47Are people actually using the react compiler? Haven't heard about since ages ago when it was extremely slow
Yes, and no. For some of us, there are projects with Next.js we cannot get away from, but those use Vercel stuff, also written in Rust.
Not sure how they relate to each other.
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#48rewrite to rust using AI sound like meme now.
Speaks volumes to the strengths of the language, also speaks volumes that LLMs lift the barrier of entry for Rust programming, the borrow checker woes can be offloaded to the model, you focus on all the other programming logic. Whats funny is I had been using Rust more with Claude because of this, and before Anthropic did their rewrite of Bun I tried a Rust rewrite of a C# project I had laying around (.NET 3.5 from b…
Not really, any Standard ML derived language would do.
Also I think this is all temporary, just like devs still did not believe on optimising compilers and checked each line of generated Assembly code, during the 1960's.
Eventually it will be natural language, and all languages will be kind of irrelevant.
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#49I love it starts with the usual hand waving, > This is an experimental, work-in-progress port of React Compiler to Rust. ... And then gets merged. So after the craziness to use node on the backend, we are back to using compiled languages to compile Javascript assets and Web resources, just like Java and .NET were doing in the 2000's, however since it is Go and Rust it is cool, not the boring languages grandpas were u…
TBF there is an advantage to having a tool like this being a native binary in Rust or Go, which are rather smaller, faster to start up and don't need a runtime like the JVM or .NET. It's also a lot more "web native" than Java applets were.
I'm not sad to see the pendulum swing away from "javascript everywhere" though.
Re: Port React Compiler to Rust
#50I love it starts with the usual hand waving, > This is an experimental, work-in-progress port of React Compiler to Rust. ... And then gets merged. So after the craziness to use node on the backend, we are back to using compiled languages to compile Javascript assets and Web resources, just like Java and .NET were doing in the 2000's, however since it is Go and Rust it is cool, not the boring languages grandpas were u…
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