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		asdkhadsj on April 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, wh... I would hope it's opt in for those scenarios. If the host is too "tiny" to carry around GCs, then a whole host of languages are not viable anyway. Requiring a GC wouldn't do them any favors.

dmitriid on April 22, 2019 [–]

Hard to say without reading all the specs/proposals: https://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/

But yeah, even specification itself is WIP

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