Wasm GC: What Exactly Is It (and Why I Should Care) - Ivan Mikushin, VMware

Wasm GC: What Exactly Is It (and Why I Should Care) - Ivan Mikushin, VMware
Wasm GC is a proposal to add garbage collection (GC) support to WebAssembly, and is currently being implemented in Wasm runtimes. This talk is an attempt to de-mystify the Wasm GC specification and describe in simple terms what exactly it brings to language implementors (spoiler: not garbage collection).