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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

by jatone 5y 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.

cyber_kinetist 5y ago
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/Overview.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...