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Discussion on: I think to learn C for wasm

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Dylan Anthony

I agree wasm is super interesting, especially with Mozilla working on WASI

Are you picking C because you already know it? Or are you just looking for some way to write wasm?

If it’s the second one I strongly recommend looking at Rust. It’s a more modern systems programming language created by Mozilla with some higher level abstractions and lots of safety, and it is being developed with wasm in mind.

Here’s how to get started with Rust and wasm

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Sergey Gustun

Rust – nice language as far as I know.

I choose C because this is a more powerful language.

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Dylan Anthony

I’m curious what about C makes it more powerful. I don’t have as much experience with C as Rust, but from what I understand Rust can do everything C can, just with more compile-time checks.