Complementing JavaScript in High-Performance Node.js and Web Applications with Rust and WebAssembly

We examine whether the novel systems programming language named Rust can be utilized alongside JavaScript in Node.js and Web-based applications development. The paper describes how JavaScript can be used as a high-level scripting language in combination with Rust in place of C++ in order to realize...

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Published in:Electronics (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 19; p. 3217
Main Authors: Kyriakou, Kyriakos-Ioannis D., Tselikas, Nikolaos D.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2022
Subjects:
Application programming interface
Applications programs
Authorship
C plus plus
Design and construction
Equivalence
Infrastructure
Interoperability
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Programming language)
Libraries
Methods
Multiprocessing
Nodes
Performance evaluation
Programming languages
Web applications
Web browsers
Web sites
Greece
ISSN:2079-9292, 2079-9292
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Summary:We examine whether the novel systems programming language named Rust can be utilized alongside JavaScript in Node.js and Web-based applications development. The paper describes how JavaScript can be used as a high-level scripting language in combination with Rust in place of C++ in order to realize efficiency and be free of race conditions as well as memory-related software issues. Furthermore, we conducted stress tests in order to evaluate the performance of the proposed architecture in various scenarios. Rust-based implementations were able to outperform JS by 1.15 by over 115 times across the range of measurements and overpower Node.js’s concurrency model by 14.5 times or more without the need for fine-tuning. In Web browsers, the single-thread WebAssembly implementation outperformed the respective pure JS implementation by about two to four times. WebAssembly executed inside of Chromium compared to the equivalent Node.js implementations was able to deliver 93.5% the performance of the single-threaded implementation and 67.86% the performance of the multi-threaded implementation, which translates to 1.87 to over 24 times greater performance than the equivalent manually optimized pure JS implementation. Our findings provide substantial evidence that Rust is capable of providing the low-level features needed for non-blocking operations and hardware access while maintaining high-level similarities to JavaScript, aiding productivity.
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ISSN:2079-9292
2079-9292
DOI:10.3390/electronics11193217