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Re:Web Assembly by s3th on Monday November 09, 2015 @07:54PM (#10536934)
We'll start tackling GC as soon as we finish the MVP [0]. No timeline yet, but we consider it essential to the high level goal of integrating well into the existing platform.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md

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Re:Web Assembly by Nrpf on Monday November 09, 2015 @09:46PM (#10537302)
Any chance python could be a first class citizen here, or are we looking at more compile-able languages?
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Re:Web Assembly by s3th on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:17PM (#10537409)
Check out the last paragraph of "Is WebAssembly only for C/C++ Programmers?" in the FAQ [0]. The tl;dr is that you'll be able to port a Python interpreter (that is itself written in C) to WebAssembly from day 1, but a more robust solution that relies on WebAssembly GC will have to wait until after the MVP.

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#is-...

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