Creating a Better “Hello, World”

Most of the information in the book thus far can be applied universally to all kinds of WebAssembly applications written in all kinds of languages. That path diverges in this chapter. From here on out, everything in the book will be specific to Rust.

More importantly, everything you do after this point will rely on tools or libraries created by the Rust community. As interest in WebAssembly with Rust grows, we can only expect this community to grow, and the power and usefulness of its tools and libraries to grow along with it. Even as young as WebAssembly is, you already have quite a few Rust tools at your disposal.

While you have a degree of choice when it comes to JavaScript bindings, the one that you’ll ...

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