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		creata 52 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What happened to WebAssembly > it's probably going to be even less pretty than transpiling to Javascript already is. I don't see how it'd be much different to compiling to JavaScript otherwise. Isn't it usually pretty clear where allocations are happening and how to avoid them?

lxgr 52 days ago [–]

“Pretty clear” is good, “guaranteed by language specifications” is better.

Why reverse-engineer each JS implementation if you can just target a non-GC runtime instead?

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