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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by porjo on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:05PM (#13759121)
Not sure about assumptions made by wasm, but current limitations preventing Go from targeting it are:

> there is no efficient way to implement setjmp/longjmp functionality currently, therefore it's not a viable target of a gc port. We need to wait until it gets real stack unwinding and exception handling support.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892

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Re:A cartoon intro to WebAssembly by abstractbeliefs on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:16PM (#13759211)
Well, thankfully TFA includes a short paragraph talking about the standardisation of exception handling, so here's hoping to have that resolved soon.
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