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davexunittoday at 5:54 PM1 replyview on HN

I really want stringref to make a comeback.


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spankaleetoday at 8:49 PM

My god yes.

I'm building a new Wasm GC-based language and I'm trying to make as small as binaries as possible to target use cases like a module-per-UI-component, and strings are the biggest hinderance to that. Both for the code size and the slow JS interop.

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