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		4ad 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extensible WASM Applications with Go No, Go can never use WasmGC because Go has interior pointers. Not even fat pointers help because Go has unboxed types. Go will continue to use its own GC for the foreseeable future.

amelius 10 months ago [–]

Interesting. Can it collect garbage _concurrently_ in WASM?

kflgkans 10 months ago | [–]

Last I checked WASM applications are single threaded, not sure if that's changed. GC is concurrent, but not parallelized.

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