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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by jsfitzsimmons on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @07:26PM (#14449396)
Doesn't WASM need GC support before Go can be used? It'll need to be fully managed languages until then, I think.

With that said I'm just parroting some other comments I've seen on this topic in other contexts, so I'm asking the question genuinely.

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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @07:34PM (#14449434)
> Doesn't WASM need GC support before Go can be used?

Why can't the Go implementation can have its own GC, the same as the Go implementation for, say, x86 does?

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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by Houshalter on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:42PM (#14455302)
It's possible but will run much slower with some of the restrictions in webasm.
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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by I_am_tiberius on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @08:29PM (#14449677)
Incredibly interested in the answer to that question as well. Go will not have a future in regards to web development if they don't find a solution for the GC issue in wasm. I assume (and hope) that's a bigger topic compiler-team internally as well currently.
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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by hooluupog on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @10:09PM (#14450010)
FYI,https://go.googlesource.com/gollvm/
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Re:Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly by I_am_tiberius on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:15AM (#14453155)
Interesting, thanks
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