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> Wasm includes various JavaScript APIs that allow compiler-generated glue code

One of the reasons I’m interested in wasm is to get away from the haphazardly evolved JS ecosystem…

I wouldn't be that sure if we'd want to exchange that for an ecosystem that consists of many different languages that all have their own ecosystem wich may not be compatible with WASM. Imagine needing nuget, maven and cargo -- all in their specific version -- to build a project.

You get more of that with wasm actually. You get the rust zoo, elixir zoo, gleam, three toolchains for c or what not. And for each of them you need a bunch of fine autogenerated javascript glue to sniff, because those people can't agree on what the string looks like in memory.

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