alt Hacker NewsI thought that the purpose of GC in WASM was to allow such higher level languages to be placed there without a bulky runtime also in WASM.
What's the value proposition of WASM GC if not this?
I thought that the purpose of GC in WASM was to allow such higher level languages to be placed there without a bulky runtime also in WASM.
What's the value proposition of WASM GC if not this?
As I understand it, WASM GC provides a number of low level primitives that are managed by the WASM host runtime, which would theoretically allow languages like Go or Python to slim down how much of their own language runtime needs to be packaged into the WASM module.
But how those languages still need to carry around some runtime of their own, and I don't think it's obvious how much a given language will benefit.