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Postgres Does the Unthinkable & Wasmtime Gets Philosophical (cont.)

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Postgres Does the Unthinkable & Wasmtime Gets Philosophical (cont.)

ions interact with it inside the Wasm environment. This sounds niche, but it's actually a critical problem for anyone running GC languages like Python, Ruby, or Go on Wasm. Getting exception handling right when the GC is also moving memory around is brutal. The Bytecode Alliance wrote this one up, and if you're into language runtimes or compiler work, it's a solid read. [OUTRO MUSIC]

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