Building on top of wasm-bindgen?

[alexcrichton]

This topic has come up from time to time, but I'd be curious if it'd be good to make this official? Would stdweb be up for officially moving in the direction (eventually) of building on top of wasm-bindgen?

If so, I'd be more than willing to help fill out more information and work with y'all to make sure we can handle everything. We mentioned during the last rustwasm working group meeting that I'd meet with @Pauan and have some discussion on Discord, but I wasn't able to reach them just afterwards :(. In any case, if this sounds like a good idea, it's probably best to close this an open a more official tracking issue next.

[Pauan]

(I was able to get Discord working, so that's not a problem anymore)

[TitanThinktank]

Lets hope cargo web dont get infected by node npm or webpack, it was a hell in wasm bingen to get around it, now i am counting on stdweb for true web programming in Rust.

[koute]

I apologize for the late reply; I was completely away for the last two weeks.

This topic has come up from time to time, but I'd be curious if it'd be good to make this official? Would stdweb be up for officially moving in the direction (eventually) of building on top of wasm-bindgen?

Yes! I'll try to catch up on the recent discussions and try to push something forward from our side.

Lets hope cargo web dont get infected by node npm or webpack, it was a hell in wasm bingen to get around it, now i am counting on stdweb for true web programming in Rust.

You might be slightly overexaggerating, but don't worry. (: I intend to keep the current cargo-web workflow for those people who currently want to keep using it. (This also includes Emscripten compatibility where I do intend to keep stdweb compatible with Emscripten as there are people who use/want that.)

No loss of functionality is planned, just extra compatibility with wasm-bindgen.

[luover]

Implement the local JS snippets RFC

[newpavlov]

Any updates on this? It would be nice to remove stdweb feature in getrandom.

[koute]

I've just added initial support for wasm-bindgen on master; see this for a working example. It's still not fully working though, mainly due to this issue:

rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#1427

@newpavlov Even though stdweb will be compatible with wasm-bindgen there are still people who do not use wasm-bindgen. Some people use Emscripten (which stdweb fully supports), and some people target wasm32-unknown-unknown through cargo-web (so without going through wasm-bindgen). It's of course completely up to you if you want to support those.

[alexcrichton]

Great news! Thanks for pushing on this @koute!

Feel free to ping us or open issues for anything missing as usual, and sorry for not implementing the function table sooner, that was a mixup for sure!

[koute]

@alexcrichton Thanks for the swift response!

Okay, in theory everything should work now on the current master! Unfortunately I still haven't ran the test suite under wasm-bindgen due to rustwasm/wasm-bindgen#1458, so I can't guarantee that everything isn't actually horribly broken. (: It'd be nice to get that sorted out, or at least figure out some sort of a temporary workaround.

I've also made wasm-bindgen the default when not using cargo-web, so it should work out-of-box without having to enable any extra features.

[alexcrichton]

Okay, in theory everything should work now on the current master!

Nice!

It'd be nice to get that sorted out, or at least figure out some sort of a temporary workaround.

Definitely! I've commented on the issue and I think we can make good progress soon on it

I've also made wasm-bindgen the default when not using cargo-web, so it should work out-of-box without having to enable any extra features.

Also nice! Thanks again so much for all your work on this!

I think this is basically all implemented now, so closing.

[koute]

Released as 0.4.16!

[TitanThinktank]

This guy Nick Fitzgerald, needs to mention stdweb in his blog instead of making claims of inventing something better without even a trace about it.
"In 2018, we made using all of these things possible in that you can access the underlying JavaScript and Web APIs directly via wasm-bindgen, js-sys and web-sy, but this is equivalent to programming against the libc crate directly. In 2019, we should create higher-level abstractions that wrap the raw, underlying API to yield a better experience that is ultimately more practical"
http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/12/14/rust-and-webassembly-in-2019.html

[koute]

@TitanThinktank I appreciate your enthusiasm and support, but please refrain from such remarks in the future. Any form of personal attacks, shaming or disrespect towards other members of the community will not be tolerated. Everyone's welcome to voice their opinion, but there are always ways to voice it without being rude.

[koute]

@TitanThinktank I'm sorry, but this is your last warning. I don't believe in censorship, so I won't delete what you wrote, but if you keep being an asshole I will be forced to block you. Again, if you want to criticize something you're free to do so, but this is not a constructive way to do so.

[ghost]

It would also be common courtesy to notify @fitzgen.