[HN Gopher] WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
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       WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-01-18 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | kevingadd wrote:
       | It's sort of baffled me that people appear to be shipping real
       | code using WasmGC since the limitations described in this post
       | are so severe. Maybe it's fine because they're just manipulating
       | DOM nodes? Every time I've looked at WasmGC I've gone "there's no
       | way I could use this yet" and decided to check back a year later
       | and see if it's There Yet.
       | 
       | Hopefully it gets there. The uint8array example from this post
       | was actually a surprise to me, I'd just assumed it would be
       | efficient to access a typed array via WasmGC!
       | 
       | Beyond the limitations in this post there are other things needed
       | to be able to target WasmGC with existing stuff written in other
       | languages, like interior references or dependent handles. But
       | that's okay, I think, it can be worthwhile for it to exist as-is
       | even if it can't support i.e. existing large-scale apps in memory
       | safe languages. It's a little frustrating though.
        
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