One day it can even run on SIM cards and Visa/Mastercard chips!
I see what you did there...
Yep. :)
All the different ways to reinvent the JVM.
True but can’t Web Assembly also be non-GC’d?
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.
But it's an opt-in GC? It's not accidental by any means