WASM doesn’t have a garbage collector built in. Languages that use a garbage collector have to also convert their language runtime into WASM which can dramatica

WASM doesn’t have a garbage collector built in. Languages that use a garbage collector have to also convert their language runtime into WASM which can dramatically increase the WASM file sizes and is more work to process by the browser. Since rust doesn’t have a garbage collector this should make its WASM files smaller and more performant