logoalt Hacker News

GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

109 pointsby phickeylast Monday at 5:10 PM8 commentsview on HN

Comments

faldor20today at 8:18 AM

It seems like a bit of a shame that wasm got support for exceptions but doesn't support effects which are a generalisation of the same concept. https://wasmfx.dev/

I'm guessing this may be because exceptions exclusively require stack unwinding where as effects require full stack switching.

Seems like there is still progress on that though which gives hope https://github.com/WebAssembly/stack-switching/blob/main/pro...

shevy-javatoday at 10:25 AM

WASM will be ready when GNU Hurd succeeds in running the desktop linux of the year. Already 10 years since WASM ... HTML, CSS and JavaScript all had a huge influence. WAS simply has not done so yet.

show 1 reply
ngrillytoday at 8:30 AM

Does it support interior pointers?

show 1 reply