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by cogman10 1553 days ago
> FWIW WASM GC is coming - and it looks great.

I've not been tuned in. Is there some good forward progress there? It along with threads felt stalled out. I'd love to see GC adopted as that would, IMO, turn WASM into something close to a universal bytecode. It would significantly expand the number of languages that could reasonably target WASM.
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mraleph 1552 days ago
The extension has recently reached Stage 2 - most of the questions around type system have been resolved. V8 has a working implementation. We have build `dart2wasm` compiler targeting this and it shows good numbers.
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cogman10 1552 days ago
Well that's really exciting!

Time to work on bringing back java applets ;)

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