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by jatone 1552 days ago
garbage collector isn't a limiting factor for wasm.

my main issue with wasm is no standard interopt for primitive types. thankfully some sort of FFI is in the works from my understanding.

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In theory yes, but in practice managed languages need native GC support because garbage collectors in WASM code are quite slow. There's a proposal in the works: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...