Safari cannot spawn nested Workers. A workaround is to build two variants of the library,
one with multithreading and one without, and serve Safari users the single-threaded variant.
For a more general solution, check out wasm-feature-detect
or nested-worker.
std::thread::spawn is unimplemented and replacements (e.g. wasm_thread) are not fully supported.
If you must use them, consider wrapping your return type in a SyncReturn<_> to
avoid the internal thread pool interfering with your threads.
This library includes a spawn! macro which spawns a new thread using the internal thread pool.
When a Rust thread panics, it aborts and throws a JavaScript RuntimeError that cannot be caught by name in
Dart. This is expected to change as the exception handling story for WASM improves, but a rule of thumb
is to replace .unwrap with .expect or Errs.
As a consequence, panic::catch_unwind does not work on the Web. As of writing, the implementation to
catch these errors resides within the bodies of the workers, i.e. it is not straightforward enough to
generalize for other use-cases.
Int64List and Uint64List throws when used on Web platforms. They are left intentionally
unimplemented by the Dart language developers, perhaps due to the differences between int and BigInt.
This library provides a barebones pure Dart shim whose behavior may differ from the specifications,
so please create an issue/PR if you encounter any significant digression.
Int64List and Uint64List arithmetics clamp on native platforms, but wrap on the Web. If your use-case
requires precision around large integer values, please be mindful of these platform-specific differences.
Support for the various components of WASM is not universal among browsers. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list
of trackers for how widely available some of the features are across browsers: