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> missing GC and a standard library.

Many of us consider these points to be features. We don't want a runtime that's as complicated as CLR or JVM bytecode.




Any popular VM inevitably becomes as complex as those. Look at V8, it's grown into a JVM sized beast.

It would save countless hours of human effort to just adapt what's out there. It will be a decade before WASM has the kind of support JVM and CLR do. By then it will have the same huge codebase that causes vulnerabilities




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