On: Experimental support for WebAssembly in V8

[geon]

That will soon not be true. Exposing the js gc is on the roadmap.

...which will also make it feasible to use other gc:ed languages without shipping an enormous runtime.

[RussianCow → geon]

Okay, but why would you compile JS down to wasm, only to have it then use the browser's built-in JS runtime? I see the use for compiling other dynamic languages, but compiling JS via wasm shouldn't be any different than running it via the normal JS engine, aside from potentially having a slightly smaller executable.

[tanlermin → geon]

But they will still need to be interpreted ie cpython.

I'm not sure how much space just cutting out the GC will save?

[esailija → geon]

GC is only a small part of a high level language runtime.