> Most of my early excitement for WASM circled around “Hey, I can finally use a decent language on the web” This has been true for years, various languages can

> Most of my early excitement for WASM circled around “Hey, I can finally use a decent language on the web” This has been true for years, various languages can compile down to JavaScript. Kotlin and Dart, for instance. Also, doesn't WASM lack a garbage collector? I imagine porting a language to WASM is still quite a task, and presumably a GC written in WASM is going to be far inferior to one provided by the browser, as with JavaScript. (Corrections welcome if I'm wrong about that.) That's not to dismiss the potential for performance gains in situations well suited to WASM. (I see the_duke already mentioned the GC situation.)