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Re:WebAssembly Micro Runtime by justinclift on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:41AM (#19876130)
TinyGo (Go for embedded devices - AVR, Cortex, Bluepill, STM32F4, etc) compiles to Wasm as well:

https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/

No garbage collector yet, but it's on the ToDo list and probably not too far off. :)

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Re:WebAssembly Micro Runtime by snarfy on Friday May 10, 2019 @09:02AM (#19877297)
Do you really want garbage collection when your device has 2KB of ram?
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Re:WebAssembly Micro Runtime by justinclift on Friday May 10, 2019 @09:34AM (#19877521)
It depends. There's no one-size-fits-everything approach for this stuff. :)
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Re:WebAssembly Micro Runtime by kbumsik on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:19AM (#19877922)
No, you can't run GC at all. The minimum size of WASM heap is 64KiB by its spec. Otherwise it should run in stack-only mode. So running GC for microcontroller with less than that size doesn't make much sense.
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