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Glimmer

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Ember's rendering engine. At the latest EmberConf before the panel, Yehuda Katz revealed he had rewritten Glimmer's core in Rust and compiled it to WebAssembly as an experimental way to shrink LinkedIn's initial load size. The experiment measured a 0.3–0.5× improvement in first-load time and is not yet fully stable or released.

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Glimmer tool
Panel describes Yehuda Katz's Rust + WebAssembly rewrite of Ember's Glimmer engine.
about
Glimmer tool
Mentions Glimmer + SWT as an easy way to build portable desktop GUIs on JRuby.
tool Ember.js
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Glimmer tool
Glimmer is Ember's rendering engine.
person Yehuda Katz
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Glimmer tool
Rewrote Glimmer's core engine in Rust and compiled it to WebAssembly.

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JavaScript/Frontend Panel at wroclove.rb 2018 2026-04-17 16:18
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