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Probably to expand where you WASM can go: in the browser, in a docker container, and now in a lightweight OS that could go on an embedded device.

• pjmlp 3y ago
  One day it can even run on SIM cards and Visa/Mastercard chips!
  • rcarmo 3y ago
    I see what you did there...
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      Yep. :)
• H8crilA 3y ago
  All the different ways to reinvent the JVM.
  • quickthrower2 3y ago
    True but can’t Web Assembly also be non-GC’d?
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      Only because they are already five years late adding GC support, and even then WASM isn't the first bytecode format supporting C and C++, there are already a couple since 1980's.
      • csjh 3y ago
        But it's an opt-in GC? It's not accidental by any means