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		vnorilo on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular JVM has first class objects, exceptions and managed memory. WASM doesn't. This does not make one better than the other, just indicates their intended uses.

moonchild on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

There are proposals currently in progress to add GC and exceptions to wasm.

As for objects, it's not clear to me how important it is to have runtime support for those.

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