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		quickthrower2 on Oct 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part ... True but can’t Web Assembly also be non-GC’d?

pjmlp on Oct 23, 2023 [–]

Only because they are already five years late adding GC support, and even then WASM isn't the first bytecode format supporting C and C++, there are already a couple since 1980's.

csjh on Oct 23, 2023 | [–]

But it's an opt-in GC? It's not accidental by any means

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