The Cost of Abstractions

Abstract

As programmers we use abstractions all the time, but do we ever care about their costs?

And what does it even mean for an abstraction to have a *cost*?

In this talk, we’ll explore different abstractions available to Javascript developers and their impact on developer productivity, team health, and application runtime behavior.

While we’re at it, we’ll also see how different languages available to frontend developers (hint: Rust and WASM-targeting languages) have radically different abstraction costs.