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Re:Ask HN: What's the Deal with HN and Rust? by jatone on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:04AM (#30686228)
garbage collector isn't a limiting factor for wasm.

my main issue with wasm is no standard interopt for primitive types. thankfully some sort of FFI is in the works from my understanding.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Deal with HN and Rust? by cyber_kinetist on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @10:08PM (#30694456)
In theory yes, but in practice managed languages need native GC support because garbage collectors in WASM code are quite slow. There's a proposal in the works: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/Ove...
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