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Debunking Rust Wasm Performance Myths: Why We Moved Core Business Logic to Rust at Canva

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Debunking Rust Wasm Performance Myths: Why We Moved Core Business Logic to Rust at Canva by Taj Pereira and Andrew Jakubowicz. There is an ongoing myth in the web community that states you should only reach for WebAssembly when you're doing "heavy computation"—image processing, games, AI, or complex simulations — because the overhead of Foreign-Function Interface (FFI) across the JS/Wasm barrier is supposedly too high for everything else. In this talk we put those myths to the test by sharing l

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