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Refactoring to Rust
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Refactoring to Rust

by Lily Mara, Joel Holmes
July 2025
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 6m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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10 WebAssembly interface for refactoring

This chapter covers

  • Writing a WebAssembly (Wasm) module to run in a virtual runtime
  • Integrating a Wasm module into a Rust executable for output
  • Using Wasm memory for non-numerical data

Java was released as a programming language in 1995 with the bold slogan “Write Once Run Anywhere” (WORA). The concept of writing code that can run anywhere was not new; it had been done before in other languages like Smalltalk, and today it seems mildly unremarkable given the extensive package managers, interpreted languages, and sophisticated compilers available to developers. But what Java did was truly amazing. In the course of a few years, it became one of the most adopted languages; it remained so for two ...

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