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Proposal for adding basic reference types (anyref)

15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 0 stories, 15 comments · first 2018-03-14 · latest 2024-04-14

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  1. …momentum - so I'm hopeful this (or a similar replacement spec) will land sooner rather than later. https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
    comment by josephg · 2024-04-14 · in Old CSS, new CSS (2020)
  2. …DOM access", you would rather want to hop into the following rabbit hole: - reference types: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p... - interface types (inactive): https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/m…
    comment by flohofwoe · 2023-11-03 · in Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly
  3. …the runtimes need to carry around, and offloads some of that onto the WASM runtime instead. [3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p... [4]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/blob/main/finished-...
    comment by TUSF · 2022-12-02 · in Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly
  4. …host's function or check is null or not, then reference types that are opaque external references: https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p... You can even do many more things if you export `Reflect` to WebAssembly:…
    comment by maxgraey · 2021-08-21 · in FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
  5. Wasm is not basically assembler, it's (going to be) very high level: - https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types - https://github.com/webassembly/threads - https://github.com/WebAssembly/exception-handling -…
    comment by emteycz · 2021-05-21 · in WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
  6. …proposals tracker: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals WebAssembly reference types ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p... ) looks like the blocker for a lot of things, and it's in the final spec phase at…
    comment by wffurr · 2020-09-09 · in How WebAssembly Changes Software Distribution
  7. You might find these interesting: - https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc - https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types - https://github.com/WebAssembly/funclets As for the eval thing, you surely can compile and execute code on the fly.…
    comment by TomMarius · 2019-11-21 · in Multi-Value All the Wasm
  8. There is no if, DOM access is already at Stage 3. https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types Besides there is already WebGL, WebAudio and WebGPU is being worked on.
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-02-27 · in Universal Binaries Using WASM
  9. It can, and the proposal is at stage 3. https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-02-15 · in Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly
  10. WASM ref handles for DOM nodes is comming. https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
    comment by pjmlp · 2019-02-15 · in Replacing JavaScript Hot Path with WebAssembly
  11. …if someone so desired! [1] - https://github.com/chinedufn/webgl-water-tutorial/blob/maste... [2] - https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
    comment by chinedufn · 2019-01-07 · in WebGL + Rust: Basic Water Tutorial
  12. …able to call these other built-ins directly from WebAssembly without having to go through JS.` -- https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types 2: `there are still a couple of built-ins where you will need to go through JavaScript. For…
    comment by benjaminjackman · 2018-10-08 · in Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
  13. …soon - I forgot to mention that the reference types proposal also include multiple table support https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
    comment by ColinEberhardt · 2018-07-20 · in The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals
  14. …to be solved, with high quality solutions, to beat JS as a managed language compile target. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...
    comment by fulafel · 2018-04-20 · in Hello wasm-pack
  15. …so this stuff doesn't get too JS-specific. The former has seen a good bit of activity recently. 0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types 1 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/host-bindings
    comment by kodablah · 2018-03-14 · in Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages