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Proposal to add tail calls to WebAssembly

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2017-11-14 · latest 2025-11-21

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  1. …- return_call_indirect <tableidx> <typeidx>, the tail-call version of call_indirect More info here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/blob/main/proposals...
    comment by marianoguerra · 2025-11-21 · in WebAssembly from the Ground Up
  2. WASM does appear to have significant tailcall consideration: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/blob/main/proposals...
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-08-18 · in How does it feel to test a compiler?
  3. No it definitely has moved forward. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32069418 https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/15#issuecomm...
    comment by Laaas · 2023-01-21 · in Kernel-WASM: Sandboxed kernel mode WebAssembly runtime for Linux
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    WebAssembly Tail Calls moved to Phase 4, soon enabled by default in Chrome
    story by apignotti · 2023-01-18 · 0 comments
  5. …so long! Excellent work! [1]: https://github.com/jacobmischka/uwm-masters-thesis/releases/... [2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/10
    comment by jacobmischka · 2022-07-12 · in Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
  6. …chromestatus.com/feature/5166497248837632 2. https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5423405012615168 3. https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/issues/5
    comment by kristianp · 2019-09-16 · in Schism, a self-hosting Scheme to WebAssembly compiler
  7. …set bloat. I'm hopeful that they won't be especially complex to implement, either. [0.1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/blob/master/proposa... [0.2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/O...
    comment by yellowapple · 2019-08-22 · in WebAssembly Interface Types: Interoperate with All the Things
  8. "The tail calls proposal is also underway", but the repo hasn't had a commit in 5 months. https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by kristianp · 2018-10-22 · in WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
  9. …... and also the fact that WebAssembly does not support tail calls either: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by btown · 2018-10-18 · in Is Rust functional?
  10. I'm really looking forward to it. For others who are curious about it, here it is: https://github.com/WebAssembly/tail-call/blob/master/proposa...
    comment by tonyg · 2017-11-14 · in WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers