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Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by rwj on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:37AM (#14459717)
It is not about running C/C++, it is about running native code (or something approximating it). With the right backend, most languages should be able to target WebAssembly. The other complication with supporting Go or Rust is that, even if the language is memory safe, the code still needs to be sandboxed.
Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by empath75 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:12AM (#14459927)
Gc'd languages will take a while.
Re:WebAssembly: Mozilla Won by fasquoika on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:22PM (#14466355)
What does Go's GC need that WebAssembly doesn't have? I understand it might be hard for a language like Java that expects a GC in the VM