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The Abstract Wikipedia team has decided to rewrite the backend in Rust (www.wikifunctions.org)
submitted 6 months ago by lens0021@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

Apparently, Wikifunctions is a place to define e.g. mathematical formulas, so that they can be executed ad-hoc to provide insights about common questions.

Certainly makes sense to run those functions sandboxed in WebAssembly, since the function code is user-provided.
And then, yeah, I can imagine the process management making up a good amount of the complexity of their backend code...