Rust keeps making JavaScript faster

Delve into one of the most prominent trends within the JavaScript ecosystem. Join me as I unravel how Rust is revolutionizing JavaScript performance in today's video.

[Speykious]

Fun fact: NaN is a number in every programming language that uses floats, which is pretty much every single one of them. That's because it's defined by the IEEE754 standard

[Bennigames]

NaN being a Number is not the fault of JS but due to the floating point standard. This is also the case in rust.

[AlexyMiro]

It would be interesting to see you building a beginner friendly website project using rust.

[Beryesa.]

What I don't understand is, why they get surprised by the performance when they should be questioning how slow the others are?

[chriskennedy]

NaN being a number is from IEEE 754. Rust adheres to this with floats as well

[thekwoka]

Not a number is a number. That's from the floating point spec. That's not JS fault.

[DiogoBaeder]

It would be nice to do another video about Rust being used more and more in the Python community - with tools like Polars, Ruff, Robyn etc getting more and more traction.

[sledgex]

So basically it has nothing to do with Rust itself but with going from interpreted languages to compiled/native languages. Same performance could be gotten with eg C++, but somehow the JS ecosystem all these years ignored native language implementation. For whatever reason, they took interest now and decided to use Rust as the new kid on the block.

[yds]

Tauri is good, especially for people who like/use Javascript a lot. I'm not one of them though. So if a comparable cross-platform and stable Rust GUI appears, I'll switch to that. So far it seems like Tauri is the best one for user/developer experience, other GUI libraries are either still in development or have quirks preventing from their serious adoption.

[StephenRayner]

Rust compilation time isn’t even its strongest point

[hwndept]

It would be great to see a new video from you about rust-tools-ecosystem incorporation into existing front-end project and how it helps to increase performance.

[yonisMw]

Prisma js is an ORM that uses a rust SQL engine, though it heavily affects cold-starts with long compile times. Rust major advantage is having no garbage collection, and relying on the compiler and the dev for safety.

[sergandonl]

I have been loving writing native rust addons for js using NAPI-RS, regularly getting over 1000x speeds over orginal Node code.

[rafael_tg]

Interesting. The same movement is happening on python world

[JorgetePanete]

Can you check that NaN is a number in the Chi Shi?

[SuperQuwertz]

More videos for Rust supporting JS please!

[lubba]

This is also happening in the python ecosystem with ruff

[adrielyozan]

There is also STC which is still in development but will speedup type checking for typescript

[DavidChoiProgrammer]

Js infrastructure isn't even all of it. With Rust and Webassembly Rust is also taking over performance critical sections of code.

[lexigbokwe]

Which Shopify build tool runs for one hour?