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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by thezipcreator on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:56AM (#47346639)
webassembly components use a borrow checking model[1], so I assume that would be used to manage DOM components?

I'm not exactly sure how this works when binding it to GC languages.

[1] https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/design/wit.html...

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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by pjmlp on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:21AM (#47347911)
Proving the point of how it is dominated by Rust folks.

Maybe they should have spent some time wondering how previous component models work, e.g. COM, CORBA, RMI, .NET Remoting,....

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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by davexunit on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:25AM (#47349169)
This is my main confusion, too! I have an existing Wasm GC language implementation and I'm not sure how to reconcile it with the component model.
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Re:Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web by thezipcreator on Thursday March 12, 2026 @03:08PM (#47355628)
I would think you could treat it as a normal GC reference and then just drop the resource when the GC collects the object.
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