Over the past year, there has been a movement to rewrite JavaScript tools in Rust to boost performance. The challenge lies in integrating JavaScript plugins with Rust without losing performance due to serialization and deserialization costs. A solution was found by flattening the AST into a buffer, allowing direct traversal without deserialization. This optimization has been successfully implemented in Deno's built-in linter, making it possible to run JavaScript plugins efficiently in a Rust environment.
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The Rust plugin dilemmaSerialization and deserialization costsFlattening the ASTLazy deserializationBonus: Supporting all the languagesConclusion17 Impressions