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There's no garbage collection in WASM. Why do you think that there is garbage collection in WASM?

And WASM has been around since 2017, which is only 4 years, not 10 years... Bitcoin has been around much longer (~12 years), for example.

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It's a spec proposal. https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...

Yes, and this is just an extension. Existing WASM compiler front-ends for non-GC languages don't have to necessarily use it. Wasm itself still won't take a performance hit, unless individual devs opt in by using front-ends for GC languages.

Emscripten hit 1.0.1 around November 2012 (looked it up on GitHub)

So if wasm is the spiritual successor to Emscripten's "Compile C to JavaScript and run C in a browser" then it's only 8 years.

I mean, you can keep playing this game and take Microsoft ActiveX or Google NaCl as another spiritual successor. I maintain that WASM has been around for 3 years.

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