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Branch of the spec repo scoped to discussion of GC integration in WebAssembly

68 mentions on Hacker News by 57 people: 3 stories, 65 comments · first 2017-04-29 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …their own GC but there's already a proposal to integrate a GC implementation into WASM[1]. [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
    comment by a0 · 2018-12-10 · in Cmm_of_wasm: From WebAssembly to Native Code via the OCaml Back End
  2. It seems to be tracked under/after GC, since that would be a prerequisite. See https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O... . Things like DOM access are specifically mentioned.
    comment by tyingq · 2018-10-22 · in WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
  3. …and nothing precludes a wasm target for Elm (in fact Evan specifically expressed interest in it: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/pull/1#discussion_r1115011... ). Either way, comparing Grain to JS or Elm is anything but pointless, at the…
    comment by masklinn · 2018-07-31 · in Grain: A strongly-typed functional programming language for the modern web
  4. …for many reasons. Regardless, here is a recent thread that does a good job discussing pros/cons: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/36
    comment by kodablah · 2018-07-17 · in The LDC D language compiler can now generate WebAssembly
  5. …memory heaps at all and talk about things in terms of an object graph and types. See comments here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/32 The important part of a runtime to me is the object model, and wasm basically punted on one for…
    comment by Jasper_ · 2018-07-14 · in WebAssembly is more than the web
  6. …to WebAssembly while keeping the same performance characteristics, if it ever happens. [0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/32 has some concerns from language implementors.
    comment by Jasper_ · 2018-05-19 · in What Does “One JS” Mean in a World of Transpilers?
  7. …it to say, and even if I did, it might be invalid by the time things are actually accepted. See https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc for the current proposal.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2018-03-03 · in WebAssembly architecture for Go
  8. See the GC proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O... . Here you get structs, arrays, and tuples (that can be used for multiple returns). I am not disappointed that none of these features made the MVP…
    comment by kodablah · 2018-01-05 · in TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly
  9. …write Pong in WebAssembly https://medium.com/@mbebenita/lets-write-pong-in-webassembly... ). [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
    comment by umilegenio · 2017-12-19 · in Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
  10. So far it doesn't look like it will: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O... But either way, I'd still take "use this object model for host GC interop" over "use this object model or leave the platform."
    comment by Rusky · 2017-09-23 · in Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
  11. …to the DOM, with webassembly, not yet. It may in the future, its still in the proposal phrase ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O... ) So the way to do it today would be WebAssembly -> asm.js/js -> canvas
    comment by orange8 · 2017-09-07 · in AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly
  12. There are plans for WebAssembly modules to directly access the DOM: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
    comment by markdog12 · 2017-08-21 · in How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
  13. FWIW the arguably ideal target for compile-to-web tech, WebAssembly, is adding some OO too [0]. 0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
    comment by kodablah · 2017-08-03 · in JavaScript TC39 implementing hashmark private class fields
  14. …together and early betas to hit the repo. Support for the WebAssembly target will come soon after. https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O... Follow haxe.io for news, etc. : https://haxe.io/
    comment by jdonaldson · 2017-07-26 · in “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
  15. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14501262 Proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
    comment by jfbastien · 2017-06-07 · in Assembling WebAssembly
  16. For reference, the current GC proposal is here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O... I expect it'll be discussed at an upcoming CG meeting. Either the next one or the one after.
    comment by jfbastien · 2017-06-06 · in Assembling WebAssembly
  17. …provide a GC, at which point we'll do what we can to support compiling to wasm. See also: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/pull/1#discussion_r1109978...
    comment by sjrd · 2017-06-04 · in Scala.JS 0.6.17 released
  18. …A markdown overview has been merged and there is a PR for impl in the interpreter. See PRs at https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc
    comment by kodablah · 2017-04-29 · in Wacl: Tcl distro customized for WebAssembly