Taking Rust everywhere with rustup
> Rust has already been ported to Emscripten (at least twice), but the code has not yet fully landed. This summer it’s happening though: Rust + Emscripten. Rust on the Web. Rust everywhere.<p>I've been following the various RFCs and PRs for emscripten support for awhile now, and it's been cool to see some slow but steady progress. It's very nice to hear the Rust team acknowledge that they are actively moving towards making the web a first class target in the near future.<p>> Rust is uniquely-positioned to be the most powerful and usable wasm-targetting language for the immediate future. The same properties that make Rust so portable to real hardware makes it nearly trivial to port Rust to wasm.<p>As a web developer I couldn't be more excited to be using Rust right now. There's been a good amount of movement among JavaScript developers toward type systems and more explicit typing in JavaScript code. I find it's a much nicer development experience to have sane guarantees about the types in your JS code. I see Rust as the big next step for the web—a language that is still a pleasure to develop in, but with excellent static typing and tight, targeted builds without the bloat and buildup I'm accustomed to seeing with current transpile-to-JS strategies.