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Andy Wingo writes:

> Hi :)
>
> On Sun 22 Oct 2017 15:22, Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>>  - Could native code compilation also be a step towards WASM, assuming
>>    they lend us their GC?
>
> Regarding this question: yes!  Specifically with the "GC" proposal
> (which in reality is much more:
> https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/master/proposals/gc/Overview.md)
> I think that we will approach WASM's semantic level.  There are some
> open questions of course, like how to deal with the stack and delimited
> continuations, how to do bignums with overflow, etc; but yeah we're
> getting there.
>
> Andy

This is very exciting!