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WasmGC is not really what you think it is. Think of it as a full-on replacement for the linear memory model, not as a way to add GC to it.

It's exceptionally difficult to port a language runtime over to WasmGC -- it doesn't even offer finalizers, so __del__ can't implemented correctly (even ignoring the issues with existing __del__ semantics in Python leading to compatibility issues). It doesn't support interior pointers, so you can't have a pointer into the middle of an array.

There's no easy way to port Python to WasmGC.




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