alt Hacker NewsThat's an orthogonal problem. First it needs to be possible and straightforward to write GCed languages in the sandbox. Second, GCed languages need to be willing to fit with the web/WASM GC model, which may not exactly match their own GC and which won't use their own GC. And after that, languages with runtimes could start trying to figure out how they might reduce the overhead of having a runtime.
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cogman10 • yesterday at 7:41 PM
> Second, GCed languages need to be willing to fit with the web/WASM GC model
I think most languages could pretty easily use WASM GC. The main issue comes around FFI. That's where things get nasty.
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> Second, GCed languages need to be willing to fit with the web/WASM GC model
Suppose the Go people make a special version of Go for Wasm. What do you think are the chances of that being supported in 5 years time?