Future of Rust WASM

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I learned Rust for wasm a few months ago using wasm-bindgen, web-sys, and wasm-pack. No bundlers, no fancy frameworks; just Rust, vanillaJS, and HTML. I was pretty happy how well Rust and JS work on the front end. More recently however, the documentation has been disappearing. This has something to do with "sunsetting" the wasm group. I thought this just meant they wouldn't be adding features.

I am starting to get afraid that these foundational Rust crates for wasm are going to be deprecated or obsolete. Is there some alternative Rust wasm crates I should be using instead? Or is it safe to keep using wasm-bindgen, web-sys, and wasm-pack for the foreseeable future?

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You can read the full announcement here:

The rustwasm organisation might be sunsetting this September, but all major repos have been taken on by other maintainers. Neither wasm-bindgen, web-sys, wasm-pack nor gloo are going to be deprecated as part of the sunset.

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Thanks. I read it awhile ago but it helped to read it again. Some things are still unclear, wasm-pack is being archived and the doc site now returns 404. Is this the state that it will be preserved in? Same for web-sys even though I though it was part of wasm-bindgen and wasm-bindgen is not being archived but transferred instead.

Is this going to be fixed? Or is it going to be archived in this state for all-time?

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wasm-pack was also transferred to a new maintainer:

web-sys still lives in the wasm-bindgen repo:

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