AFAIK GC is (mostly) irrelevant for "direct DOM access", you would rather want to hop into the following rabbit hole: - reference types: https://github.com/Web

AFAIK GC is (mostly) irrelevant for "direct DOM access", you would rather want to hop into the following rabbit hole: - reference types: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/proposals/reference-types/Overview.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p... - interface types (inactive): https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/proposals/interface-types/Explainer.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/main/pro... - component model: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model If this looks like a hot mess, that's because it is. Compared to that, the current solution to go through a Javascript shim doesn't look too bad IMHO.