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envguard··on We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
The WASM story is interesting from a security angle too. WASM modules inheriting the host's memory model means any parsing bugs that trigger buffer overreads in the Rust code could surface in ways that are harder to audit at the JS boundary. Moving to native TS at least keeps the attack surface in one runtime, even if the theoretical memory safety guarantees go down.