On: WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft

[richdougherty]

It looks like garbage collection is at the 'proposal' stage, one step before it would start to be implemented.

"During this phase:

    "One or more implementations proceed on prototyping the feature to the point that a comprehensive set of tests can be added.

    "A test suite is added. These tests need not pass the reference interpreter at this point, but should pass on some implementation."

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/process/ph...

Here's the proposal:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc

And you can see it's being actively worked on:

https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/commits/main

[mhoad → richdougherty]

Under implementation in Chromium too https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7748

[markdog12 → mhoad]

And Dart has an experimental wasm backend that leverages that work in v8 here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/pkg/dart2wasm/dar...