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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale by timClicks on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:10PM (#16759130)
IIRC wasm has no GC capabilities, so Python is an unlikely source language.
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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale by steveklabnik on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:29PM (#16759322)
In cases like that, you also compile the Python GC to wasm and use it. It ships with your app, adding bloat to your binary though. It does work!
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Re:JavaScript to Rust and Back Again: A Wasm-Bindgen Tale by timClicks on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:29AM (#16762961)
Ah gotcha, have also been pretty impressed by pypyjs http://pypyjs.org/
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