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A comment on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web. Parent comment
Here's a quote from the "requiem for stringref" article mentioned above:
> 1. WebAssembly is an instruction set, like AArch64 or x86. Strings are too high-level, and should be built on top, for example with (array i8).
> 2. The requirement to support fast WTF-16 code unit access will mean that we are effectively standardizing JavaScript strings.
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Here's a quote from the "requiem for stringref" article mentioned above:
> 1. WebAssembly is an instruction set, like AArch64 or x86. Strings are too high-level, and should be built on top, for example with (array i8).
> 2. The requirement to support fast WTF-16 code unit access will mean that we are effectively standardizing JavaScript strings.